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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