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English: 20 Thousand Year Old Seed Clusters
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English: NPS
Title
English: 20 Thousand Year Old Seed Clusters
Description
English:

5.7 cm of overlying dark brown seed clusters of the aquatic plant Ruppia cirrhosa preserved in gypsum cement.

Seeds found in sedimentary layers were radiocarbon dated to 23,000 -21,000 years, providing relative deposition dates for each gypsum sediment layer and timeframes for the creation of each footprint.

  • Keywords: Seed; Radiocarbon; Dating; Ice Age; Fossil
Depicted place
English: White Sands National Park, New Mexico
Date Taken on 16 January 2020
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English: NPGallery
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Public domain This image or media file contains material based on a work of a National Park Service employee, created as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, such work is in the public domain in the United States. See the NPS website and NPS copyright policy for more information.
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WHSA
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English: Fossilized Trackways

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