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20 Thousand Year Old Seed Clusters

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.

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White Sands National Park, Code: WHSA

White Sands National Park, New Mexico
Latitude: 32.7751007080078, Longitude: -106.316200256348

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01/16/2020

01/16/2020

Saturday, August 5, 2023 7:17:52 PM

Saturday, August 5, 2023 8:44:55 PM

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Panasonic Panasonic, DMC-G85

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