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Fossilization occurs when hard parts from a dead plant or animal are buried quickly in sediments and exposed to mineralized solutions over long periods of time.
unknown title 2009
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Fossilization is a rare occurrence that preferentially happens in some environments and not others.
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Fossilization takes hundreds of years in itself, so if in a forty day lab experiment, millions of fossils can be produced, then you might have a valid argument.
Steve Steve and the Fossil-Fossils of De-Na-Zin - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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Manual placement of {{dabdef | Fossilization}} needs the basepagename added manually too.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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Fossilization of a pregnant female "is a very rare event, but a very nice one."
Science News / Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, News Items and Book Reviews 2009
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Alternative is do have a much more manually (for example, {{dambigbox | the process in [[palaeontology]] | Fossilization}}) template but probably better to have it placed automatically.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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Fossilization similar to mummification requires very specific natural conditions in order to occur.
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Fossilization usually occurred when a dinosaur died and was buried or covered over by a sediment of rock particles.
unknown title 2009
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Fossilization also occurs infrequently, to a small fraction of all animals.
Pharyngula 2009
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Fossilization is a rare event, so if a population was small, or if it evolved rapidly, or if it lived in an area that’s not conducive to producing fossils, then we won’t have the convenience of a frame by frame replay of the changes.
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