Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<p>A 22-million-year-old petrified <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/mangrove" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mangrove</span></a> forest found in the Panama Canal <a href="https://phys.org/news/2024-01-million-year-petrified-mangrove-forest.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phys.org/news/2024-01-million-</span><span class="invisible">year-petrified-mangrove-forest.html</span></a></p><p>An early <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Miocene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Miocene</span></a> (<a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Aquitanian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Aquitanian</span></a>) mangrove <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/fossil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fossil</span></a> forest buried by a <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/volcanic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>volcanic</span></a> lahar at <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/BarroColoradoIsland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BarroColoradoIsland</span></a>, <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Panama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Panama</span></a> <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0031018223006247" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sciencedirect.com/science/arti</span><span class="invisible">cle/abs/pii/S0031018223006247</span></a></p><p>"approximately 1 million years after the formation of <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/BarroColorado" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BarroColorado</span></a> Island, a <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/volcano" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>volcano</span></a> erupted, followed by a <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/lahar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lahar</span></a>, which covered the island with mud and rocks. It also covered the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/MangroveForest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MangroveForest</span></a> that had grown around the edges of the island."</p>