Study on land plant fossils shows Paleoasian Ocean disappeared about 251 million years ago
Tuesday, December 8, 2009 - 12:28
in Paleontology & Archaeology
A latest discovery of land plant fossils from Heilongjiang, Northeast China shows that the Siberian Plate sutured with the North China Plate at the end of the Permian, and resulted in the final closure of the Paleoasian Ocean (an ocean existed for hundreds of million years in earth history).