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Cryogenic opal-A and microbial preservation

Cryogenic opal-A and microbial preservation
Cryogenic opal-A and microbial preservation Detailed electron microscope views from Mark Fox-Powell's experiments. Upper left: a close-up on the net-like morphology of the cryogenic opal-A. Upper center: a typical broken piece of opal-A net. The rest of the pictures show examples of microfossils, the results of microbes being entombed in the opal-A as it forms. Some microbes are preserved, others appear only as voids. © Mark Fox-Powell