Permineralization

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A good website with a lot of different pictures of petrified wood is http://petrifiedwoodmuseum.org/Permineralization.htm

Jcoxner (talk)12:10, 1 February 2011

http://oi53.tinypic.com/a3msld.jpg



Here's a picture of a fossil that has been permineralized, recrystallized, and replaced in places. You can tell it's perminerallized because you can see the internal molds formed by the minerals, most likely carried there by water travel.

SkittyPaw (talk)04:45, 23 February 2011