ScienceDaily: Fossils & Ruins News

Scientists have found in Salzgitter-Salder what researchers have been searching for for more than 20 years: A geological formation that perfectly represents the transition from the Cretaceous Turonian to the Coniacian Age. The former limestone quarry is now considered a global reference point (GSSP) for the turn of the ages 89.4 million years ago.

Anthropologists, geographers and earth scientists look to the past to assess how different cultures have - and will - adapt to global warming.