Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names ( US-ACAN ) for John J . Mulligan of the U . S . Bureau of Mines, who scaled this peak and the peak to the south of it during December 1960 and found coal beds and fossil wood.
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In another report in Nature, a team of geologists and anthropologists, led by Dr . Giday WoldeGabriel of the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, described how the fossils, which were lying under volcanic ash and glass, were dated and noted that an abundance of fossil wood and aboreal seeds was identified.
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Cassiano sent Ent specimens of petrified wood and a tabletop made from fossil wood, which had come from the estates of Federico Cesi at Acquasparta; the specimens and the tabletop were shown to early meetings of the Royal Society and had a significant part in the developing debate on the origin of fossils.
