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Examples of fossilization

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These results suggest that differences between species have a strong influence on the potential for different microorganisms to be preserved by fossilization.
Teachers should for example know about fossilization, and set realistic goals.
These include the fossilization process, preservation and cladistics, in addition to (arguably) more prosaic topics such as fieldwork, collecting, preparation and curation.
The term "fossilization" would seem to imply a permanent deficiency or grammatical impairment.
Fossilization and preservation of organic matter is enhanced under anoxic conditions, rapid burial rates, rapid desiccation, hypersaline conditions and subzero temperatures.
Only then might we have the chance to distinguish fossilization-as-product from a learning plateau.
Now, in order to qualify as lexicalization in the sense defined above, the newly formed reciprocal should also exhibit fossilization.
From the synchronic point of view fossilization entails that the single elements of a fossilized whole do not function as independent linguistic expressions.
These involve primarily changes in original plant diversity, as well as in the fossilization potential related to groundwater table level and various sampling biases.
The chemistry will affect the biota and the fossilization processes.
Why, in other words, should suppliance of mor phology show apparently consistent evidence of fossilization at a nonnative level, when underlying knowledge does not ?
Usually less apparent are diversity changes within the coal-bearing strata, where sampling bias and low fossilization potential are of only minor importance.
During the process of fossilization, both the worms and their tubes were strongly compressed.
Complete valves and articulated pairs are not uncommon, suggesting either fossilization in situ or after minimal displacement.
Studies of life and fossilization processes in extreme environments show surface damage and drilling is essential for astrobiology studies.
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