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How does petrified wood form?

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(EXAMPLE)Casts of flora and fauna are created by (for example) a leaf falling into mud millions of years ago. the mud eventually hardens forming sandstone and therefore, the leaf is embedded within this. bones, twigs, small animals like mice or fish are commonly found in this way. After pressure from surface material or the build up of further sand or mud, whole bodies can become trapped, leaving complete skeleton fossils. Ice is another good producer of foosils or petrified casts, like mammoths, Sabre tooth tigers etc.

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Petrified wood is a fossil of a once living tree; the fallen tree is first tree is covered with sediments , then the organic material is replaced gradually by minerals (usually silicate minerals), retaining its shape and form.

Petrified wood often looks like normal wood and displays annular ring patterns, bark, vessels etc. Petrified wood normally lacks the same definition that live (or recently dead) wood does. One obvious difference is that petrified wood is considerably more dense than wood.

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Petrified wood is a fossil of a once living tree; the fallen tree is first tree is covered with sediments , then the organic material is replaced gradually by minerals (usually silicate minerals), retaining its shape and form. Petrified wood often looks like normal wood and displays annular ring patterns, bark, vessels etc. Petrified wood normally lacks the same definition that live (or recently dead) wood does. One obvious difference is that petrified wood is considerably more dense than wood.


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