Footprints left by the same creatures were found in 1977 in Tanzania, imprinted in volcanic mud 3 . 6 million years old _ making them 10 times older than the new discovery.
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Workers employed by private contractors have abandoned work on portions of a major dike project because of fears of being buried by volcanic mud flows from Mount Pinatubo, an official said Friday.
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For the last 20 minutes or so, Gerd Ruhs, still as a pharaoh's mummy, happy as a hippo, has been encased in a coating of volcanic mud whose temperatures run to 120 degrees.
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And there's also strong evidence to support that Mount Rainier sent a massive lahar-- a wall of volcanic mud and debris that can hit 60 mph-- all the way into the Duwamish River valley
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The surprise is that the tracks were laid down in ashy volcanic mud about 440 million years ago-- some 50 million years earlier than previous estimates of the arrival of multicellular life on land.
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Others in San Pedro Cutud, a village near Mount Pinatubo north of Manila, prayed that their sacrifice would help shield the community from flows of volcanic mud that buried much of it last October.
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The acid from the volcanic mud which buried the woman released iron salts which impregnated and preserved her hair, which was elaborately styled in a way " typical of wealthy, high-ranking young Roman women ."
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Thousands of people living near a newly active volcano fled their homes Wednesday by bus, on foot, even in ox-drawn carts as thick volcanic mud, sand and ash rained on their communities in western Nicaragua.
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In 1978, six years after her husband's death, she made her most important discovery : footprints frozen for 3.5 million years in volcanic mud, which demonstrated that early hominids walked upright much earlier than previously thought.
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The tradition in San Pedro Cutud nearly came to an end three years ago when much of the village was covered by more than a meter ( three feet ) of volcanic mud from nearby Mount Pinatubo.
