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Amber Yields Clues to the History of Oxygen in Earth’s Atmosphere

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Via geology.com:

Mosquito trapped in amber: Amber – the fossilized resin of conifer trees – provides a unique means of protecting intricate samples of the past. This mosquito, lying trapped for 45 million years in a piece of amber, is almost perfectly preserved. USGS image.

Gas bubbles trapped in amber show an oxygen-rich Cretaceous atmosphere

Republished from an information release posted by USGS in June, 2009.

 

In addition: amber in India’s Cambay area has new information too.

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