Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. That change of character, exhibited by most fossil remains, in which the gradual removal of the animal substance has been accompanied by the replacement by mineral matter.
Wiktionary
- n. A form of fossilization in which minerals are deposited in the pores of bone and similar hard animal parts
Etymologies
- per- + mineralization (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Fossils are often preserved in a process known as permineralization, in which mineral deposits form internal casts of organisms.”
“There are three main steps towards permineralization of living plant matter:”
“The process in which wood is preserved by permineralization, commonly known as petrification, takes extensive amounts of time.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘permineralization’.
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Dinosaurs, extended
At first, this was a list for things found in Dinosaurs: A Concise Natural History by David E. Fastovsky. But now it's degenerated a bit to contain anything dinosaur or fossil related.
disarticulate, body fossil, trace fossil, apatite, soft anatomy, permineralization, replacement, articulated, disarticulated, intestine’s-eye view, ichnofossil, paleoenvironment and 270 more...
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Words of Dinosaurology
This quickly got bigger and weirder than originally intended, so now it's housing terms that relate to the study of dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures. See also Dinosaurs, Pterosaurs, Ichthy...
zygopophyses, ziphodont, plesiomorphic, cleidoic, endothermy, ectothermy, viviparous, vertebrae, cervical, dorsal, sacral, caudal and 628 more...
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chained_bear "The action or result of fossilization by the precipitation of dissolved minerals in the interstices of hard tissue." (OED) Sep 8, 2008