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fossilization

[fahs-uh-liz-ay-shuhn, -lahyz-] / ˌfɑs ə lɪzˈeɪ ʃən, -laɪz- /


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A team of researchers has developed an innovative method based on fossilization processes to seal cracks and fractures in rock using a "concretion-forming resin."

From Science Daily May 22, 2024

Given the rarity of fossilization for hominin remains and how few have been found, we might never catch a glimpse of our immediate direct ancestor, Wood says.

From Science Magazine Apr. 3, 2024

Ms. Losso was analyzing the trilobites’ appendages when she came across a curled Ceraurus trilobite with a set of plates called sternites lining its stomach that rarely survives fossilization.

From New York Times Dec. 19, 2023

The tree trunks, which are subfossils -- remains whose fossilization process is not complete -- were sliced into tiny single tree-rings.

From Science Daily Oct. 9, 2023

It might be called the fossilization of religious ideas.

From Sketches from Concord and Appledore by Stearns, Frank Preston




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