How can you demonstrate that permineralization does not involve replacement of cell-wall organic material? |
In all observed and analyzed microbial fossils, permineralization of cells seemed to be the main mode of pyritization. |
The bones are stained a dark red brown but otherwise display little permineralization, crushing, or distortion. |
If it turns out that the tissue has been preserved by permineralization, then this is further evidence that permineralization does not take long time periods. |
An empirical permineralization model was developed for the setting of a normal peat deposit overlain by a thick terrestrial shale deposited by a nearby river. |
Typically, permineralization has filled most or all of the cavities of the bone including, in many cases, the marrow cavity. |