fossilization

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To investigate what happened during burial and fossilization, Tarhan's team used an innovative chemical approach.

From Science Daily • Jan. 27, 2026

These isotopes helped determine whether clay minerals played a role in fossilization and whether those clays came from land, known as detrital clays, or formed directly within the seafloor, known as authigenic clays.

From Science Daily • Jan. 27, 2026

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 great Appalachian and other coal fields are without doubt, the long continued and vigorous forest growths, and subsequent fossilization of the same in the marginal swamps of ancient gulfs or seas.

From The Harris-Ingram Experiment by Bolton, Charles E. (Charles Edward)