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What is a macrofossil?

What is a macrofossil? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (paleontology) Any fossil large enough to be examined without a microscope.
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Macrofossil analysis will be used to examine climatically induced changes in sand and moss particles.
A reconstruction of the environment of retting in the city of Turku, Finland, on the basis of diatom, pollen, plant macrofossil and phytolith analyses.
If one is interested primarily in the succession and development of peatland plant communities, macrofossil analysis will provide the most detailed information about the plants.
As with other types of macrofossil, species determination is often, but not always, possible.
Conversely, pollen and macrofossil evidence from near Lake Ontario indicates that cool, boreal forests persisted into the early Holocene.
In the case of the plant macrofossil analyses at Beccles, flots were collected over a single 0.25mm sieve, rather than a stack of sieves of decreasing apertures.

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