Tuesday 20 May 2014

Marine fossil bed along Africa's South Atlantic coast dated to 71.5 mya

EARLY EARTH
Marine fossil bed along Africa's South Atlantic coast dated to 71.5 mya
Dallas TX (SPX) May 20, 2014 - Paleontologists at Southern Methodist University have measured the carbon isotopes in marine fossils to precisely date for the first time 30 million years of sediments along Africa's South Atlantic shoreline. The researchers matched the pattern of ratios of carbon-13 and carbon-12 isotopes in marine fossils from Africa's South Atlantic shoreline to known patterns of carbon ratios in fossil ... more


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