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Fossilization

noun
1.
The process of fossilizing a plant or animal that existed in some earlier age; the process of being turned to stone.  Synonym: fossilisation.
2.
Becoming inflexible or out of date.  Synonym: fossilisation.





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... of birds have been found; but this is not surprising, since birds would rarely be exposed to the conditions which were essential to the fossilization of their remains. The earliest known fossil bird is the Archaeopteryx, the remains of which were found in 1862 in the Solenhofen Slates, which belong to the Oolite formation. Though the actual remains of birds are ...
— The Story of Creation as told by Theology and by Science • T. S. Ackland


Words linked to "Fossilization" :   action, natural process, activity, passage, natural action, petrification, transition, petrifaction, fossilize


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