Sentences with phrase «for fossilization»

New Orleans is ripe for fossilization, all of the structures, the pilings, the concrete pilings, tens of meters into the ground to keep the skyscrapers up.

These places are ripe for fossilization.

Man's tendency to understand this world in continuous and static terms, according to Altizer, is responsible for the fossilization of past forms of Christianity prolonged anachronistically into the present.

There are many transitional fossil that show the progress of evolution, but due to the conditions necessary for fossilization it is unreasonable to expect a complete chain of fossils from modern man back to a previous ancestor.

It should be pointed out that even when conditions appear optimal for fossilization there are many cases where fossilization does not happen.

Not exact matches

The fossil record which shows millions of years of stable species, then an explosion of necessarily mutations, all occurring at the precise necessary time required for complex organisms to develop, and ALL escaping fossilization «the sudden appearance of most species in the geologic record and the lack of evidence of substantial gradual change in most species — from their initial appearance until their extinction — has long been noted, including by Charles Darwin who appealed to the imperfection of the record as the favored explanation» — Wikipedia

But the other reason is that fossilization is a very rare event and only takes place in a few types of habitats (ones in which oxygen is absent for example).

Regarding bats, there is a limited fossil record for comparison due to their terrestrial niche and fragile skeletons which are less amenable to fossilization.

The technique provided evidence for the first time that a rare fossilization process occurred in the basin.

Baily's interpretation also provides a mechanism for phosphatic fossilization found at Doushantuo through microbially mediated phosphate precipitation by the bacteria.

Once part of a machine used as a means for destruction, to encourage rejuvenation through building, these pieces, now preserved, begin a fossilization process of their own.

For better or worse, I've put myself out there as being willing to talk to reporters (after brain fossilization and heretic, I now have the hide of an armadillo).