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- Title
An insight into amber.
- Abstract
The article reports an insight into amber with the use of propagation-phase contrast microradiography. Through synchrotron X-ray imaging technique, French paleontologists at the University of Rennes and the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble were able to make the organisms like spider and conifer branch hidden by the fossilized tree resin for around 100 million years visible. They even produced a series of spectacular three-dimensional images and examined around two kilograms of opaque amber from mid-Cretaceous sites in southwestern France.
- Subjects
SOUTHWESTERN France; AMBER; FOSSIL resins; MICRORADIOGRAPHY; LIFE (Biology); SCIENTIFIC photography; THREE-dimensional imaging in biology; PLANT propagation; PALEONTOLOGY
- Publication
Nature, 2008, Vol 452, Issue 7188, p677
- ISSN
0028-0836
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/452677f