fossilization

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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

So how do scientists begin to disentangle the various natural and human forces that influence fossilization?

From Science Daily • May 8, 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

Before we can decide on this question of transportation, we must know whether the fossil coal-plants occurring in high latitudes bear the marks of friction and of having decayed previously to fossilization.

From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir