If, after I die, I wanted my skeleton to become fossilized what is the best way to make it happen?
Posted May 25, 2022, 5:56 AM UTC
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Posted May 25, 2022, 5:56 AM UTC
Geophysicist who not much of a geologist here.
I'd suggest being buried in a river delta.
what if I skipped the middle man and just died in a river delta
Go jump in thick thick mud
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Organisms can be buried and preserved in substances such as frozen soil, volcanic ash, sediment, ice, oil, and amber. This process preserves even the soft parts. Hard parts such as shells, teeth, bones, and wood can also be more easily preserved because they resist weathering. Hard parts can also become altered due to carbonization (leaves only a thin film of carbonaceous material), petrifaction (gets replaced by minerals in water turning it to stone), and replacement (hard parts dissolve and get replaced by calcite, silica, dolomite, and iron compounds)
[More information] (https://digitalatlas.cose.isu.edu/teach/lsnho/geo5AK.pdf) about fossilization in geology.