Sugarcane Field Burning
This is a fragment of ash and char fallout from
the smoke plume of a burning sugarcane field. The stomata and
charred silica coating of the leaf epithelium are evident in this image.
Transmitted Brightfield Illumination
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References:
Rapp, George Jr. and Susan C. Mulholland (eds) 1992, PHYTOLITH SYSTEMACTICS: EMERGING
ISSUES, PLENUM PRESS
Piperno, Dolores R. (2006), PHYTOLITHS: A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE FOR ARCHAEOLOGISTS AND
PALEOECOLOGISTS, ALTAMIRA PRESS.
