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Burmese amber - also known as burmite, is a Cretaceous age amber about 99 million years old found mainly in the Hukawng Valley, Kachin State, Myanmar (Burma). The most common amber containing insect inclusions of the Cenomanian, mined in a very large amount since late 2010s and became one of the most available types of amber.
Pautah County, California was created in 1852 out of territory which, the state of California assumed, was to be ceded to it by the United States Congress from territory in what is now the state of Nevada. When the cession never occurred, the California State Legislature officially abolished the never-organized county in 1859. [4]
One of Monterey County's oldest functioning churches, a prominent 1884 Carpenter Gothic church exemplifying a type common to late-19th-century small California towns. [19] 14: Cueva Pintada: February 13, 1975 : Address Restricted: King City: Prehistoric rock shelter covered with white, red, black, and ochre pictographs by Salinan people. [20]
The oldest amber with arthropod inclusions comes from the Late Triassic (late Carnian c. 230 Ma) of Italy, where four microscopic (0.2–0.1 mm) mites, Triasacarus, Ampezzoa, Minyacarus and Cheirolepidoptus, and a poorly preserved nematoceran fly were found in millimetre-sized droplets of amber. [53] [54] The oldest amber with significant ...
California's Amber Alert system hit a major milestone this week. 20 years after its start, the California Highway Patrol gave KCRA 3 a rare look inside the alert center where the alerts originate.
The system (the acronym AMBER stands for America’s Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response) was created to notify communities about missing children and other at-risk persons after 9-year-old ...
A 7-month-old girl suspected of being abducted was found safe a few hours after the California Highway Patrol issued an Amber Alert for six counties in the greater Sacramento area on Thursday morning.
The Calico Early Man Site is an archaeological site in an ancient Pleistocene lake located near Barstow in San Bernardino County in the central Mojave Desert of Southern California. This site is on and in late middle- Pleistocene fanglomerates (now-cemented alluvial debris flow deposits) known variously as the Calico Hills, the Yermo Hills, or ...