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From: The study of Dominican amber-bearing sediments from Siete Cañadas and La Cumbre with a discussion on their origin

Figure 8

Microphotographs of shale with plant detritus under polarized reflected white light (oil immersion; SC4 sample). (A) Fragment of preserved wood with a visible cell structure—textinite (Tx); (B) Piece of wood with a damaged cell structure—ulminite (Ul). Visible cracks; (C) Accumulation of detritic plant—densinite (De); (D) Plant detritus—atrinite (At) with oval clusters of corpohuminite (Ch); (E) Laminae of detritic plant—densinite (De); (F) Plant detritus dispersed in the rock matrix—densinite (De).

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