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Petrified fossil is an organism that has been converted into stone. Silica, iron and copper minerals can be commonly found in petrified fossils.
These are called "replacement fossils" also "petrification"
Arizona's state fossil is petrified wood
The Texas state fossil is the petrified pomtree.
a fossil in which minerals replaces all or part of an organism
Petrification
covered up quickly, also important depending on the type of fossilization, water running through the area. Key would be the mineral replacement offered to the fossil.
Petrified wood used to be part of a tree, when it fell off a rock started fossilizing over it and it became a fossil. -Gwen
Petrified wood used to be part of a tree, when it fell off a rock started fossilizing over it and it became a fossil. -Gwen
Petrified fossil
petrified palm wood
stone bone