Diagram showing different States of Fossilization of a Cell of a Tabulate Coral.
It is an important counterpoise to the hardening and fossilization which repeated habitual actions bring about in the nervous system.
These different forms of fossilization may easily be understood if we examine the mud recently thrown out from a pond or canal in which there are shells.
Most numerous, by far, are fossils in rocks of marine origin, because on relatively shallow sea bottoms, where sediments of the geologic ages have largely accumulated, the conditions for fossilization have been most favorable.
A very common kind of fossilizationis the preservation of only the hard parts of organisms.
This assists fossilization to some degree, and fossil Charas are not uncommon.
As will have been understood from Chapter II, even when the process offossilization took place, geologically speaking, rapidly, it can never have been actually accomplished quickly as compared with the counter processes of decay.
Yet these plants are most frequently delicate herbs, which would have stood relatively less chance of fossilization than the other families which may be considered primitive.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fossilization" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: arteriosclerosis; hardening; petrification; sclerosis; setting; solidification; tempering
