INTERESTING spiral patterns (Fig. 1) were found on the growing inner surface of nacre when the fresh inner surface of pelecypod shells was observed under a microscope using a vertical illuminator.
This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. Bar-Yosef Mayer D.E. 2005. Pelecypod Beds Revisited: Glycymeris in Bronze Age Sites. JIPS 35:45-52 ...
Good specimens of pelecypod fossils are uncommon in the Cincinnati area. This is because their shells originate as aragonite, which transforms over time into calcite; this transformation can destroy ...