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The fossil remains of dinosaur bones come in a different forms. Most have been petrified with calcium, yielding a stony texture and appearance. Agatized bones were petrified with silica or quartz, which gives the bones a glassy and colorful look.

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What are synonyms of petrified?

Fossilized; hardened; rock-hard; immobilized. Petrified also means extreme fear.


Is petrified wood a rock and if so is it metamorphic?

Petrified wood is considered a rock, one that may be composed of a single replacing mineral, often quartz or pyrite, but possibly with others in combinations. Petrified wood is not considered metamorphic. It is also considered a fossil.


Is the Mississippi state rock petrified wood?

Petrified wood is the state stone of Mississippi. This was designated in 1976. Mississippi contains a large petrified forest park and museum.


What is a hard and rock-like fossil?

A hard and rock-like fossil is called a petrified fossil. Petrified fossils are formed when organic material is slowly replaced by minerals, turning the material into stone while preserving the original structure of the organism.


Remain of organisms are actually changed to rock are called?

the answer is petrified fossils


Use petrified in a sentence?

She was so petrified of the dragon, she hid behind a big rock so it wouldn't find her.


Is a petrified wood is a 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


Is petrified wood a 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


Can you polish petrified wood?

Petrified wood is now mineralised and turned into rock. It can be polished but to do this you must treat it as you would when you want to polish a granite worktop, it is a job for a stonemason.


Give you sentence with a word petrified?

With the help of my hypnotherapist, I am no longer afraid of the dark. OR, a sentence containing the word, as requested: When I saw the burglar I was petrified; I couldn't move until he'd left. (Petrified = turned to stone/rock. Petrol(eum) comes out of rocks, St. Peter is said to be the rock of the Christian church etc.)


What are remaiins or traces of organisms preserved in rock called?

fossils


When pieces of ancient redwood become squeezed together it will form what kind of rock?

Petrified