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2. What are exceptional methods of preservation?

  • carbonisation and silicification
  • Tar and pyritisation
  • Amber and Tar
  • carbonisation and amber

3. what conditions are need for pyritisation?

  • shallow sea
  • sulfur bacteria and oxygen
  • Anaerobic and sulfur bacteria
  • sandy sediment

4. What causes carbonisation?

  • thin burial
  • little carbon in environment
  • compaction
  • metamorphism

5. an external mould has what features of the shell?

  • mostly hard parts
  • soft parts only
  • External features
  • interal features

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James Disney

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Petrified wood is an example of Silicification, not pyritisation

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