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Scientists Have a Powerful New Tool to Investigate Triassic Dark Ages – SciTechDaily
A rock core from Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, has given scientists a powerful new tool to understand how catastrophic events shaped Earth’s ecosystems before the rise of the dinosaurs. The quarter-mile core is from an important part of the Triassi…
The skull of a phytosaur, an extinct reptile that lived during the Late Triassic in what is now Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona. Analysis of a rock core led by the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics is helping scientists reconstruct a more accurate timeline about the geologic period in which this creature lived. Credit: National Park Service
A rock core from Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, has given scientists a powerful new tool to understand how catastrophic events …
