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I want an answer to the question: what other common minerals or compounds commonly occur as replacements?

Transcribed Image Text:Harold Levin
V. Fleming/Science Photo Library/Photo Researchers
Fossils: Surviving Records of Past Life
131
FIGURE 6-3 Petrifaction by replacement. This is the
shell of an extinct marine organism known as an ammonite.
In this 160-million-year-old Jurassic fossil, the original
calcium carbonate skeleton has been replaced with the d
mineral pyrite (commonly called "fool's gold"). 2 What
other commom minerals or coтроипds commоnly оссur as
replacements? (Answers to questions appearing within figure
legends can be found in the Student Study Guide.)
nineralization. (A) In
cow's femur (upper
arrow cavity.
which the porous
ineral matter.
anals that once were
ves or in open spaces
aposition of the bone
is made harder and
g. 6-2).
eous exchange of the
or animal with min-
sition. Solutions dis-
olace it with an equal
. 6-3). Replacement
that details of shell
d, and delicate bone
soft tissues are pre-
or example, leaves or
ke jellyfish or worms
FIGURE 6-4 Preservation by carbonization.
This fossil seed fern from Pennsylvanian rocks that are
li bos been preserved by
1 thus lose
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