{"id":30412,"date":"2025-02-27T09:26:57","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T03:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=30412"},"modified":"2025-04-10T10:35:46","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T05:05:46","slug":"petrification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/petrification\/","title":{"rendered":"Petrification"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Petrification Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Geologists and forest officials recently unearthed a rare and well-preserved petrified fossil at Rajmahal Hills near Barmasia village in Pakur district, Jharkhand.<\/p>\n<h2>About Petrification<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Petrification (petros means stone) occurs when the <strong>organic matter <\/strong>is completely <strong>replaced by minerals <\/strong>and the <strong>fossil is turned to stone.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>This generally occurs <strong>by filling the pores of the tissue<\/strong> and inter- <strong>and intracellular spaces with minerals<\/strong>, then<strong> dissolving the organic matter <\/strong>and <strong>replacing it with minerals.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>This method r<strong>eproduces the original tissue in every detai<\/strong>l. This <strong>kind of fossilization <\/strong>occurs in both hard and soft tissues.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>This typically occurs when the material is buried under sediment and exposed to mineral-rich water over long periods.<\/li>\n<li>This process is involved in many forms of fossilization and leaves behind many stunning and <strong>beautifully preserved fossils.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>An <strong>example <\/strong>of this kind of fossilization is <strong>petrified wood.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Petrification FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. What is an example of a petrification?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. These can include petrified wood, sometimes preserved in entire forests, as well as amber-preserved insects and other small lifeforms<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. How fast is petrification?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. It usually takes thousands to millions of years under normal geological conditions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. What is coprolite?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Coprolites are the fossilised faeces of animals that lived millions of years ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/ranchi\/rare-and-well-preserved-petrified-fossil-discovered-in-pakur\/articleshow\/118584434.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TOI<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Petrification (petros means stone) occurs when the organic matter is completely replaced by minerals and the fossil is turned to stone<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":30413,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30412","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}