University of Wyoming Researcher Collects Sediment From Natural Trap Cave to Study Past Climate Conditions
August 07, 2021
August 07, 2021
LARAMIE, Wyoming, Aug. 7 (TNSRes) -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release:
Much like an ancient bighorn sheep or a woolly mammoth from the Pleistocene era, Ioana Stefanescu stood at the edge of the Natural Trap Cave -- an 85-foot-deep cavern in northern Wyoming that contains a graveyard of mammal fossils dating from 12,000 to 23,000 years ago.
But, unlike those prehistoric mammals that unexpectedly fell to their deaths, Stefanescu, a University of . . .
Much like an ancient bighorn sheep or a woolly mammoth from the Pleistocene era, Ioana Stefanescu stood at the edge of the Natural Trap Cave -- an 85-foot-deep cavern in northern Wyoming that contains a graveyard of mammal fossils dating from 12,000 to 23,000 years ago.
But, unlike those prehistoric mammals that unexpectedly fell to their deaths, Stefanescu, a University of . . .