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| Benchimol,R. E.; Cooper,K.; B.I.,Kronberg; Powell,M.. |
| Fossils of wood, bone and teeth found along the Upper Purus River οf Amazonia. were studied using conventional microscopy and scanning electron microscopy. Mass spectometry was also used to investigate minor and trace element signatures of bone samples.The microsopy studies showed that there was little alteration of original textures. In the fossil wood samples, identified In thin section as tropical hardwood trees, the replacement of the original material with siderite suggests that fossilization occured in shallow sediments in which interstitial waters were saturated with respect to iron carbenate. In samples of both fossilized bone and wood, precipitation of secondary iron phases was commonly observed in cracks and voids. Other secondary phases Included... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
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| Ano: 1986 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0044-59671986000100327 |
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