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Book

How does a bone become a fossil?

Call Number

  • J 560 STEW (CEN, OSH)

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Publication Information

Chicago, Ill. : Raintree, c2010.

Physical Description

32 p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm.

Contents

  • Signs of past life
  • Kinds of fossils
  • From fish to fossil
  • Buried treasure
  • Where fossils form
  • Common body fossils
  • Dinosaur fossils
  • Molds and casts
  • Traces of the past
  • Trapped in tar and ice
  • What is amber?
  • Scientists at work
  • Be a fossil hunter.

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