Sentence examples for extraordinary preservation from inspiring English sources

Their extraordinary preservation, usually in sandstone or shale, was probably the result of rapid burial and protection by smothering sediment.

Extraordinary preservation at rare localities indicates that many other kinds of arthropods were at least locally more abundant and more diverse than the trilobites.

As it sounded forth from the local classical music station, WETA, the cantata was a reminder of the extraordinary preservation labors that some inmates carried on.

Extraordinary preservation of arthropods dating to the later parts of the Cambrian Period in Sweden is especially notable, as the bodies and appendages remain largely uncrushed; the integument retains many fine structures, including setae (bristly hairs or organs) and pores.

The influence of bacteria on extraordinary preservation (i.e. lagerstatten) has been discussed [23] [27].

Since these initial analyses, several additional studies confirmed and amplified evidence for the extraordinary preservation of this head.

The extraordinary tissue preservation we found in our specimen is also consistent with a complementary explanation, however.

The extraordinary level of preservation of the building is because it collapsed into a river, sunk to the bottom and was fairly rapidly then covered in silt.

In a more down-to-earth vein, Yu Yanjiao of the Hunan Provincial Museum observes in another essay that one reason the Mawangdui excavation caused such a worldwide stir among archaeologists was the extraordinary state of preservation of Xin Zhui's body, which unfortunately is not in the exhibition.

The extraordinary state of preservation of the membrane allowed mapping of the location of the plaque protein paxillin also by immuno-gold labeling.

Cambrian worm phyla (Annelida, Priapulida, and probable Pogonophora) are mainly known from localities where preservation was extraordinary.