Today you discover the process of the fossilization or better said the mineralisation of bones. I show you bones from the ice age/ young pleistocene epoch to the Holocene (the geological era in which we are living today).
From time to time lots of minerals of the surrounded sediment (in which the bone was embedded) entered the bone. So the bone became heavier and the minerals changed the color of the bone (got a darker/ brown color).
This is the mineralization process.
And the fossilisazion is the next step: The bone will get rellay heavy and will become one with the sediment. All this petrified so the bone is strongly attached with the sediment. Then we (as paleontologists) can find the bone in the matrix (=bedrock, the original sediment).
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Small correction (7:05)
It's the only vertebra of fish/shark,…
For sure I have a lot of ice age mammal vertebra of bisons, horses, rhinos,…
Nice information on those bones, look forward to you next fossil adventure!
Thanks a lot for the interesting finds and the nice comparison