Wheat Field Burning Particle

This is cluster of pyrolyzed silica phytoliths from an environmental tapelift collected in a home exposed to a wheat field fire. There is one elongated stomata evident at lower center on this sheet element. The circular holes are locations of the plant hair bases. The spoke pattern is evident on the upper part of one of the circles upper right of center.

Transmitted Off Crossed Circular Polarized Light and Reflected Darkfield

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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.