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Phytoliths


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    • Calcium phytoliths
    • Opal phytoliths
    • Silica phytoliths
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    • found: Work cat.: 98-38793: Kealhofer, L. Opal phytoliths in Southeast Asian flora, 1998.
    • found: Alta Vista, Aug. 19, 1998(Palynology definitions: Phytoliths: the siliceous secondary cell walls of certain terrestrial plants; Al-Phyto: Phytoliths are silica bodies produced in the tissues of many plant families that can be used to identify plants)
    • found: AgriCOLA, Aug. 19, 1998(t.: Phytoliths)
    • found: BasicBIOSIS, Aug. 19, 1998(t.: Phytoliths)
    • found: BiolAgrInd, Aug. 19, 1998(t.: Phytoliths)
    • found: Web 3(Phytoliths, a plant fossil)
    • found: CAB thes.(Opal phytoliths UF Phytoliths)
    • found: Henderson's dict. biol. terms(phytolith: mineral particle, as hydrate of silica, in plant tissue, particularly of grasses)
    • found: Cambridge illus. dict. nat. hist.(phytolith: small particles of opaline silica found in cell walls of some plants and studied as plant trace fossils.)
    • found: Piperno, D.R. Phytolith analysis, 1988:p. 1 (At one time or another called opal phytoliths, silica phytoliths, silica cells, plant opals, biogenic opal, or simply phytoliths) p. 11 (The term phytolith, from the Greek meaning plant stone, has sometimes been used to indicate all forms of mineralized substances secreted by higher plants, be they siliceous or calcereous in composition.)
    • found: Phytolith systematics, 1992:p. 1 (Phytoliths are botanical microfossils that can provide significant paleoenvironmental and archaeobotanical information. Paleoliths are here defined as mineral deposits that form in and between plant cells ... Calcium deposits usually are crystalline ... Opaline silica deposits are generally amorphous in nature.)
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    • QK898.P677
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    • 1998-08-24: new
    • 2001-07-16: revised
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