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Geological Magazine; September 2007; v. 144; no. 5; p. 893; DOI: 10.1017/S0016756807003159
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PIPERNO, D. R. 2006. Phytoliths. A Comprehensive Guide for Archaeologists and Paleoecologists.

ix +238 pp. Lanham, New York, Toronto, Oxford: AltaMira Press (Rowman & Littlefield). Price £39.00 (paperback). ISBN 0 7591 0385 2.

Howard Falcon-Lang

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In 1833, in the course of his epic voyage of discovery on HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin found himself moored off Cape Verde in the Atlantic Ocean. One day, he noticed the persistent fall of a fine dust, and observed how it scratched some of the astronomical instruments. He collected material for analysis and mailed samples to his German colleague, C. G. Ehrenberg. And so was made the first discovery of phytoliths – microscopic, sculptured bodies of opaline silica that develop within the cells of a wide variety of plants. These biogenic deposits are . . . [Full Text of this Article]






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