This guide was written to serve as a tool for the identification, occurrence, production and use of Florida's most common rocks and minerals. It was primarily intended to be a simplified general reference for the student; therefore, technical information and detailed descriptive material were minimized. Some of the terminology used in these ...
Petrographic imaging, in combination with qualitative and quantitative instrumental analyses of mineral mass, allow us to obtain material signatures of silicified plant stems that are relatively common in sediments of continental basins since the late fossils can be found in their original strata but commonly have been removed from their environmental and stratigraphic context ...
Further, Taylor et al. (2011) have pointed out a bias in sample preparation, with thin sections of coal balls showing better preservation of fungal structures than acetate peels. That said, for example, while funginite was present in Pennsylvanian coals ( Richardson et al., 2012 ), it was not as diversified in the Pennsylvanian as in later coals.
Silicified wood, occurring mainly in ... Dolomitized and calcitized wood is known from Carboniferous and Permian 'coal. balls' (Vadász, 1964).
(2) Coalified compression, best illustrated by structures from coal but characteristic of many plant fossils in shale, preserves anatomical details in distorted form and produces surface replicas (impressions) on enclosing matrix.
In this kind of fossil at times the material of unique plant might be saved for example coal balls, Silicified wood and so forth. 2. Cast on incrustations: In this kind of plant fossil, the type of plant whenever safeguarded as a cast. The cast outcome from the enjoying of an avity framed by rot of tissues of plant part.
Coal Balls. Because coal balls are accumulations of (degrading) plant material (technically peat), they also are an excellent source of various forms of decaying organisms, including fungi. Numerous fungal remains have been found in coal balls, including hyphae, spores, and various types of reproductive structures.
The 1930 discovery of Carboniferous lycopsid fossils in south central Colorado resulted in the naming of a new species of scale tree, Lepidodendron johnsonii (=Lepidophloios johnsonii (Arnold) DiMichele). Cellular structures of L. johnsonii axes and periderm are preserved in silica—an unusual mode of fossil preservation for Pennsylvanian lycopsid plant remains. The early reports on the Trout ...
Petrified wood has traditionally been divided into two categories based on preservation processes: permineralization (where tissues are entombed within a mineralfilled matrix) and replacement (where organic anatomical features have been replicated by inorganic materials). New analytical evidence suggests that for most petrified wood, permineralization and replacement are not independent ...
Usually occurs with bone or wood. Each pore in the material is filled with a mineral (usually agate or jasper). • Carbonization. The plant or animal is flattened between layers of finegrained sediment, and most organic molecules are forced out leaving behind only carbon (frequently occurs in fish fossils in shale). • Molds and casts.
silicified wood that contains only a very small proportion of the original material. Thus, a fossilization process that began as permineralization ultimately produces a petrifaction that could
A clampbearing fossil fungus is reported from silicified plant tissues of earlymiddle Triassic age from Antarctica. Palaeofibulus antarctica gen. et sp. nov. represents the third unequivocal ...
Some supporters of the in situ theory believe that Stopes' and Watson's discovery of a plant stem extending through multiple coal balls shows that coal balls formed in situ, stating that the drift theory fails to explain Stopes' and Watson's observation.
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and sideritization, whereby silicified, calcified and dolomitized coal balls are best preserved (Zheng et al. 2008). Significantly, the number of fossil wood specimens in western Liaoning is very high, and most of them are silicified. Anatomically, the majority of fossil wood specimens from western Liaoning contain wellpreserved secondary
The first anatomically preserved wood specimens of an upland Carboniferous flora from the Iberian Peninsula are reported from the Erillcastell Basin (Eastern Pyrenees, Catalonia, Spain). Two taxa are described, a calamitacean Equisetales (Arthropitys sp.) and a Cordaitales (Dadoxylon sp.).
The three specimens analysed, up to 25 cm in diameter, were found to belong to the same type of wood; they are described on the basis of the best preserved specimen. The permineralised axes are wellpreserved with a parenchymatous pith, endarch primary xylem and pycnoxylic secondary xylem.
Silicified conifer (Podocarpus cf. hallii) stumps up to m in diameter are present at two levels in seam M2 of the Miocene Gore Lignite Measures, Mataura Coalfield, eastern in situ stumps are believed to be the remains of forests which grew during pauses in peat accumulation, when groundwater levels were depressed as a result of climatic change or local basinal processes.
A silicified gymnospermous wood, Yangquanoxylon miscellum gen. nov. et sp. nov., is described from the Upper Pennsylvanianlower Permian Taiyuan Formation, Yangquan City, Shanxi Province, North China. The pycnoxylic wood is composed of thickwalled tracheids and thinwalled rays. It is characterized by mixed radial tracheid pits, uniseriate and homogeneous rays, occurrence of scalariform ...
The bestknown and moststudied petrified wood specimens are those that are mineralized with polymorphs of silica: opalA, opalC, chalcedony, and quartz. Less familiar are fossil woods...
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