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This may seem weird to answering my own question, but if you look, it is not a question smart one :-| MAKING A FOSSIL 1.Get something to fossilize, such as a leaf, chiken bone or even a bird feather. 2.The following ingredients may be hard to find, but i think that you might find them at The Home Depot or Lowe's; 6 tablespoons of clay 4 tablespoons of gravel 2 tablespoons of sand 2 tablespoons of talc 1/2 tablespoon of salt 1/2 tablespoon of aluminum 2-4 tablespoons of water an extremly tiny bit of quartz* *quartz is optional 3.Get a moderete-sized pan and add the first five ingredients in and very slowly add water.(too little and the mixture is dry.too much and you're in trouble.)When the right comsistancy has been acheived,remove the dough-ish stuff from the container and divide it into four pieces.Put an item that you wish to fossilize in one of the four pieces.Use the remaining three to bury three more things if you wish.I recommend only using one or two(for a later project that I will post also).Shape your dough until it looks like a rock(a rock is recommended).Place the pre-fossil on a tray and let it harden in the sun for a week or two. After a while, your fossil will be like a chunk of concrete.If it isn't, then retry this experiment.Have fun making fossils of things!
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"In the natural world, fossils that aren't actually fossils are known as concretions. These occur naturally when mineral deposits, such as siderite or limestone, infiltrate rock formations. Many amateur collectors make the mistake of believing a concretion to be a dinosaur egg or an ancient turtle shell fossil. However, there are other reasons that a fossil can look exactly like the real thing when it isn't. It's when you cast--or even make--a fossil yourself." Source and further information: http://www.ehow.com/how_2042339_make-fossil.html Further information: http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Fake-Fossil http://www.miamisci.org/www/mediadocs/Make_a_fossil.pdf http://www.howdodo.com/do/63487_How-to-Make-a-Fossil.html http://home.howstuffworks.com/nature-craft-projects-for-kids4.htm 2) "Becoming a fossil isn't easy. Most shells or bones decompose or get eaten. So a group of geologists are dropping bags of fossil wanna-bes in the ocean to see just what it takes to turn them into stone. " Source and further information: http://www.aip.org/radio/html/how_to_make_a_fossil.html Further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil
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