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Microscopy of Silicified Wood
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 March 2018
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Ancient forests comprised an enormous biomass and typically flourished in lowland habitats that offered favorable conditions for fossllization, so it is not surprising that petrified wood is the most abundant terrestrial fossil. Petrifaction of wood by carbonates, sulfides, oxides, and phosphates is evidence that fossilization can occur under diverse geochemical conditions, but silicification is by far the most common process.
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