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.

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.