subfossil
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- noun
- /sʌbˈfɑsəl/
- Specialized
- During the excavation, they found a remarkably preserved subfossil leaf that revealed clues about the climate millions of years ago.
Examples
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Hantemirov and Shiyatov (2002) selected subfossil samples using some criteria that sought to pick those with higher variability as well as length.
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Scientists discovered a subfossil remnant of a prehistoric tree buried beneath the soil.
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Most of the cross-dated subfossil wood is younger.
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(This is possible in my opinion, since living trees on the banks are a different subset from subfossil trees in the river.)
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Obviously, there needed to be some fine-tuning... or so we assume now that our expectations have been shifted by sequencing of subfossil remains.
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Thanks, there is also the issue of using RCS on subfossil specimens that Tom so interestingly avoids.
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There is a profound inhomogeneity in the age composition of the living trees in the CRU archive relative to the subfossil archive, which is much reduced in the Schweingruber Variation.
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Another would be to make various apriori selection criteria, like tree age (> 200 years) or no subfossil when using RCS, etc. with and without strip bark, with and without tree rings (which Dr. L and Hu did).
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Re: Kenneth Fritsch (#308), Hantemirov and Shiyatov 2002 selected subfossil samples using some criteria that sought to pick those with higher variability as well as length.
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The paleontologists examined the subfossil bones of an ancient animal to learn about its habitat.
How Fossilized
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Subfossil combines sub- 'under' or 'partly' and fossil (a thing 'dug up' from the ground), so it means a remain that is only partly fossilized and still has some of its original material.