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  2. Permineralization - Wikipedia

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    Permineralization is a process of fossilization of bones and tissues in which mineral deposits form internal casts of organisms. Carried by water, these minerals fill the spaces within organic tissue. Because of the nature of the casts, permineralization is particularly useful in studies of the internal structures of organisms, usually of ...

  3. Petrifaction - Wikipedia

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    Tree remains that have undergone petrifaction, as seen in Petrified Forest National Park. In geology, petrification (from Ancient Greek πέτρα (pétra) 'rock, stone') is the process by which organic material becomes a fossil through the replacement of the original material and the filling of the original pore spaces with minerals.

  4. Diagenesis - Wikipedia

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    These trilobites (Lloydolithus) were replaced by pyrite during a specific type of permineralization called pyritization. Permineralization in vertebra from Valgipes bucklandi Diagenesis ( / ˌ d aɪ . ə ˈ dʒ ɛ n ə s ɪ s / ) is the process of physical and chemical changes in sediments first caused by water-rock interactions, microbial ...

  5. Petrified wood - Wikipedia

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    Petrified wood has also been discovered in Dholavira in Kutch, Gujarat, dating back to 187–176 million years. [24] Japan – there is a fossilized forest preserved at Sendai City Tomizawa Site Museum; Indonesia – petrified wood covers several areas in Banten and also in some part of Mount Halimun Salak National Park.

  6. The time when a day on Earth was just 19 hours long - AOL

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  7. Abendlied unterm gestirnten Himmel - Wikipedia

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    " Abendlied unterm gestirntem Himmel" (Evening song under the starry heaven), WoO 150, is a song for high voice and piano by Ludwig van Beethoven composed in 1820. The work is a setting of a poem believed to be by Otto Heinrich von Loeben , who wrote it under the pseudonym H. Goeble.

  8. How long it really takes to fall through the Earth - AOL

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    The original calculations assumed that the Earth has the same density throughout - and the gravitational force changes as you approach the center, much like the weight of a spring that bounces up ...

  9. Buy your way to Heaven! The Catholic Church brings back ...

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    The Catholic Church had technically banned the practice of selling indulgences as long ago as 1567. As the Times points out, a monetary donation wouldn't go amiss toward earning an indulgence.