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  • B.C. 117) is already indicative of the "fossilization" of Chinese writing, Huan K'uan at least in his liberal use of the binome retained touch with the spoken language. Discourses On Salt and Iron
  • The work of this international group, published in the latest issue of Geologica Acta, is the first taphonomic (fossilisation process) study done on cetacean remains combined with other paleontological disciplines such as ichnology (the study of trace fossils). PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
  • The Creation / Flood scenario for fossilization would allow many centuries for such permineralization to occur, even under less than ideal conditions.
  • The former hypothesis has some justification, for Chinese prose was sufficiently young to have escaped, as yet, on the whole, the later processes of "fossilisation", by being divorced from the actual spoken language. 3 Discourses On Salt and Iron
  • After all, one of the tools that clean economic advocates have used to give the market good information about the true costs of energy has been to propose carbon pricing as a way to realize the value of the fossilization of sunshine. Alison Wise: The Clean Economist: Clean "Corruption"
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  • Not the kind of oozing rot one might find in the depths of some leafy jungle or in a fetid swamp but rather a peculiar kind of desiccation that bordered on fossilisation as if all moisture had been sucked from the sea. Beneath an opal moon
  • Studies of fossilisation now known as stabilisation suggested that learners who are not encouraged to, or even discouraged from, ‘adding grammar’ are stuck in the pre-syntactic, lexical phase. L is for (Michael) Lewis « An A-Z of ELT
  • This may not be fossilization as we know it, of large macrostructures, but fossilization at a molecular level.
  • The fossilization process known as petrifaction usually begins when a tree or log is buried in silica-rich, alkaline volcanic ash or mud.
  • -- To return to the general argument pursued in this chapter, it is assumed, for reasons above explained, that a slow change of species is in simultaneous operation everywhere throughout the habitable surface of sea and land; whereas the fossilisation of plants and animals is confined to those areas where new strata are produced. The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)
  • Only the final peristomeal differentiations, with fragile lappets, may disappear during fossilization.
  • The result is generally polarization, lack of commitment, inflexibility, the premature loss of scientific excellence, and fossilization, which are sufficiently familiar and uncomfortable to require no elaboration. Archive 2009-02-01
  • That has led many to posit that the ‘cambrian explosion’ is more likely an artifact of the differential fossilization of animals with hard parts, particularly exo-skeletons, than of a real explosion.
  • Martin Brazeau has an excellent post on taphonomy at The Lancelet reporting a paper in which folks let poor innocent critters rot in order to ascertain which anatomical features are likely to be preserved and which are likely to be lost before fossilization, and the implications for interpreting fossils of ‘soft’ tissues for phylogenetics. The Panda's Thumb: Transitional Fossils Archives
  • The complexity of the fossilization process is reflected in the presence of different textures in adjacent cells of the same tissue.
  • -- "'The Making of Species' will do much to arrest the fossilisation of biological science in England. A Bird Calendar for Northern India
  • Isn’t premature grammaticalization actually more likely to lead to fossilization? L is for (Michael) Lewis « An A-Z of ELT
  • Witness her attacks on the saintly Vincent Gray – “brain fossilisation” etc. Pain in Maine, but they can measure rain « Climate Audit
  • But then we weren't seriously hunting for fossils, a worthwhile pursuit if you are not already well advanced into fossilization yourself, as it were.
  • Otherwise, the carcass would be destroyed by the influences of erosion, rotting, and weathering before the process of fossilization could start. Modern Science in the Bible
  • —To return to the general argument pursued in this chapter, it is assumed, for reasons above explained, that a slow change of species is in simultaneous operation everywhere throughout the habitable surface of sea and land; whereas the fossilisation of plants and animals is confined to those areas where new strata are produced. II. Uniformity Of Change
  • Cyrus, please look up the subject 'fossilization'. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
  • The probability of fossilization is investigated by taphonomists and geologists, who have concluded that it usually is very low.
  • This quaint ceremonial, still annually observed in the secluded capital of Buddhism—the Rome of Asia—is interesting because it exhibits, in a clearly marked religious stratification, a series of divine redeemers themselves redeemed, of vicarious sacrifices vicariously atoned for, of gods undergoing a process of fossilisation, who, while they retain the privileges, have disburdened themselves of the pains and penalties of divinity. Chapter 57. Public Scapegoats. § 3. The Periodic Expulsion of Evils in a Material Vehicle
  • It was not developed to ‘get around the data’, it was developed to apply what we knew about genetics to what we should then expect in terms of fossilization.
  • After all, there have been many catastrophes that destroy evidence - fossilization is a rare event because animal flesh and bones decay quickly.
  • But really, the climate issue is just a way of trying to grapple with this fundamental uneven marketplace; the incorporation of the "cost of carbon" (because we have used the "fear" lever in the spectrum of fear and greed that the marketplace right now recognizes as the only two drivers for economic activity) is a way of monetizing fossilization in that extracted petroleum, coal, hydrocarbon feedstock. Alison Wise: The Clean Economist: Clean "Corruption"
  • PIE *septm̥ is grammatically unanalysable in PIE and retains fossilization of Proto-Semitic morphology i.e. the root *sab`-, the feminine *-t- and mimation leading any rational person to the simplest conclusion that Semitic contacts in Pre-IE must have existed. Enticed by a drunken thought
  • This quaint ceremonial, still annually observed in the secluded capital of Buddhism-the Rome of Asia-is interesting because it exhibits, in a clearly marked religious stratification, a series of divine redeemers themselves redeemed, of vicarious sacrifices vicariously atoned for, of gods undergoing a process of fossilisation, who, while they retain the privileges, have disburdened themselves of the pains and penalties of divinity. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion
  • So it is simply false, given what we know about the process of fossilization, to declare that we should have a perfect record of every species and therefore should have a perfect sequence of fossils documenting every transition.
  • In the fossilisation process, the original organic parts of the shark's tooth are replaced by minerals such as iron pyrites and silica.
  • Studies of fossilisation (now known as stabilisation) suggested that learners who are not encouraged to, or even discouraged from, ‘adding grammar’ are stuck in the pre-syntactic, lexical phase. L is for (Michael) Lewis « An A-Z of ELT
  • We are constantly told that geological processes like petrifaction, fossilisation, and stalagmite formation take millions of years - an unimaginably long time.
  • The party Polaroid is not so much an evocation of a past event as it is an instant fossilization of the present.
  • By demonstrating that soft tissue can be mineralised in the laboratory we had discovered a new approach to investigating this important mode of fossilisation.
  • It might be called the fossilization of religious ideas. Sketches from Concord and Appledore

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