Tag: golden
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‘Golden’ fossils reveal origins of exceptional preservation
Phys.org has an article about “golden” fossils. Germany’s Posidonia shale, which dates to the early Jurassic, was thought to contain pyritized fossils of sea life. New research by a team at the University of Texas at Austin have found that the golden shine actually comes from phosphate minerals with yellow calcite. Additionally, the chemical composition…
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In Upstate New York, Ancient Arthropods Can Get Turned Into (Fool’s) Gold
Atlas Obscura has a piece about trilobites… golden trilobites. Trilobites are some of the most desirable fossils and highly detailed, pyritized trilobites are especially desirable. “Beecher’s Bed” is a famous trilobite quarry discovered and named for Charles Emerson Beecher, a paleontologist a the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University. It is made of…
