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https://doi.org/10.5194/sd-27-49-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/sd-27-49-2020
Progress report
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27 May 2020
Progress report |  | 27 May 2020

Late Miocene wood recovered in Bengal–Nicobar submarine fan sediments by IODP Expedition 362

Lisa McNeill, Brandon Dugan, Katerina Petronotis, Kitty Milliken, Jane Francis, and the Expedition 362 Scientists

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Backman, J., Chen, W., Kachovich, S., Mitchison, F., Petronotis, K., Yang, T., and Zhao, X.: Data report: revised age models for IODP Sites U1480 and U1481, Expedition 362, in: Sumatra Subduction Zone, edited by: McNeill, L. C., Dugan, B., Petronotis, K. E., and the Expedition 362 Scientists, Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program, 362, College Station, TX, USA, https://doi.org/10.14379/iodp.proc.362.202.2019, 2019.  
McNeill, L. C., Dugan, B., Petronotis, K., and Expedition 362 Scientists: Sumatra Subduction Zone, Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program, 362, College Station, TX, USA, https://doi.org/10.14379/iodp.proc.362.2017, 2017b. 
Mustoe, G. E.: Non-mineralized fossilized wood, Geosciences, 8, 223, https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences8060223, 2018. 
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The IODP scientific ocean drilling program drilled into the sediments of the Bengal–Nicobar submarine fan system west of Sumatra, Indonesia. Within the cores, a large piece of fossilized wood was discovered, 9 million years in age and buried beneath 800 m of sediment; it is thought to be the largest wood fragment found in scientific ocean drilling boreholes. The wood is believed to be a species of flowering plant and may have originated from the north, east, or even as a result of a tsunami.