Ancient Rainforest Revealed in Coal Mine

Yahoo News ^ | Mon Apr 23, 2007 | Jeanna Bryner

[Ann Archy]

I prefer the RUGGED Beaches...been to Ocean Shores during Clam Digging season....fun, but not awe=inspiring.

[SunkenCiv]

the "fossilizedforest" keyword:

• The Pompeii of trees: 300 million-year-old forest preserved by volcanic ash found beneath Chinese...
• 300 million year old fossilized forest discovered under coal mine in China
• Prehistoric titanic-snake jungles laughed at global warming
• World's Biggest Snake Lived in 1st "Modern" Rain Forest
• Prehistoric titanic-snake jungles laughed at global warming (at 3-5° hotter then )
• The World's Largest Fossil Wilderness (Coal mine)
• Largest prehistoric snake slithers into record books
• Largest snake was 'size of bus'
• Ancient fossil find: This snake could eat a cow!
• Archaeologists discover 8-million-year-old forest in Hungary
• Rare fossilized cypress trees found in Hungary
• Researchers Probe Fossilized Rain Forest