India, Feb. 19 -- The Government of India has issued a release:
Open cast coal mines in Jharkhand have provided evidence of a lost ecosystem that existed much before humans or even dinosaurs existed. Evidence buried in the mines helped retrace the dense swampy forests and network of rivers that prevailed in India which formed part of the southern supercontinent Gondwanaland, nearly 300 million years ago.
The study reconstructs the Gondwanan environment occasionally kissed by the sea and could provide insights into how sea level rise due to climate change can reshape continental environments
Earlier studies proposed numerous theories which attempted to explain pathways of sea incursion on the basis of evidences found in fauna and sediment...