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Fw: crystals in fossils

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Subject: Fw: crystals in fossils
From: "Thomas de Wilde" <jedimr_thomas@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 23:04:05 +0200
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Wasn't there pyrite in Seismosaurus
> Calcite and other crystals sometimes form inside fossil bone.
>
> In the 19th century, for example, Hugh Falconer's Miocene and Pleistocene
mammal fossils from the Siwalik Hills, India, contained large calcite
crystals.
>
> Does anyone know of any dinosaur or mammal skulls in any US collection
that contain obvious crystallization?
>
> Much obliged for any info!
>

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