- a variation of petrifaction.
petrification
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An Addition to the Instances of Petrification, formerly enumerated.
From Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 Giving some Accompt of the present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World by Oldenburg, Henry
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Paleontology - High School
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