Wheat Field Burning Particle

This is cluster of pyrolzed silica phytoliths from an environmental tapelift collected in a home exposed to a wheat field fire. There are two elongated stomata evident above center and right on this sheet element. The circular holes are locations of the plant hair bases. The cystoliths in the base of the hairs are still present in this charr fragment.

Transmitted Off Crossed Circular Polarized Light

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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.