Plant Fragment with Phytoliths
                This is from the Creek/Sylmar fire in Los
                  Angeles, California in 2017. This is from an environmental
                  tapelift collected in a home near the Creek fire. It shows a plant fragment
                  containing a number of calcium oxalate phytoliths. The phytoliths
                  show no thermal modification.
                
              
              
                Transmitted Crossed Circular Polarized Light
                
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