Re: Greeting from Japan

[mstern@baker.cnw.com (Michael Sternberg)]

>Another volcanic fossil was a North American rhino cast in an ashfall 
>somewhere in the west ...[balance snipped]

You probably are referring to the rhino found in Eastern Washington and
recovered by the Burke Museum in Seattle.

The specimen consisted of a basaltic cast of a rhino that had post-mortem
bloat.  The full skeleton was not preserved within the cast.

 
           Michael "We're not in Kansas anymore" Sternberg
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