Science news articles about 'silica deposits'

... teem with life and the associated silica deposits typically contain fossil remains of microbes," says Jack ... remains seen in terrestrial hot spring deposits, Farmer notes that the new microscopic imagers ...

... , so the conclusions based on such remains are fragmentary. Much smaller parts of the maize plant, like cellular silica deposits, called phytoliths, and pollen and starch grains, are ...