Ever since I can remember, I’ve been drawn to many types of study outside of the classrooms I’ve entered. Even in High School, a simple walk through a local museum piqued my interest in the history being presented. Over the decades since then, I’ve enjoyed many museums across the country and even in Germany and England. Regardless of the history being presented, it was fascinating to me.
Over these last 13 years since I retired, I find myself doing research online because its easier and much more affordable to engage the history of things I find of interest. Much of it covered music, art, civilizations of all kinds, as well as scientific and archaeological views on the history of our world and its past climatic changes like the article I found today.
I did not know much about tree resin also known as amber but I found the historical information it contained to be fascinating. In this article there is an intriguing view into how amber in the ocean near Japan got to the bottom of the ocean and was still pliable. I figured there might be others here in OTG who find history of this nature to be interesting as well, so I am sharing it here for anyone who might be interested.
Massive tsunami swept tree resin and amber out into the seabed - Earth.com
A layer of fossilized resin, known as amber, sits in deep‑sea clay and has puzzled geologists for decades. New fieldwork in northern Japan now shows that a tsunami powerful enough to rip coastal forests from their roots hurled that resin into 11,000‑foot‑deep water during the age of the dinosaurs.
History of any topic is never boring nor is it static as changes found after those events sometimes can adjust the history of what is being discovered and written about.