noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a fossil fuel (= a fuel such as coal or oil, produced by the gradual decaying of plants and animals )
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Global warming may be caused by burning fossil fuels.
fossil fuel
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Environmentalists would like to see fossil fuels replaced by renewable energy sources.
living fossil
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
burning
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The main global-warming gas, after all, is carbon dioxide, given off mainly by burning fossil fuels.
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Geothermal energy does not involve the burning of fossil fuels and therefore makes a negligible contribution to global warming.
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This staining on marble is the result of dry deposition from sulphur dioxide gases produced by the burning of fossil fuels.
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Nor do they contribute to environmental pollution by burning fossil fuels.
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Hasn't he any conception of the devastation caused to this planet by burning fossil fuels?
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And they produce oxygen which animals need to breathe, and which helps to replace that lost by burning fossil fuels.
old
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How do you begin an interview with a three-million-year old fossil ?
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And bacteria, besides being the simplest form of life we know, are also among the oldest fossils we have discovered.
■ NOUN
assemblage
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A fossil assemblage accumulated by a predator thus may not represent any single mammal community from any one habitat.
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Of course, many graptoloids also drifted into shallower water, where they are associated with a more normal kind of fossil assemblage .
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It is important to distinguish the influences of both, as both may introduce particular sets of biases into the fossil assemblage .
bone
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Half a million fossil bones of reptiles and birds have been found in the lava tubes scattered across the landscape.
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Owls Owls are probably the major contributors to fossil bone assemblages.
evidence
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The fossil evidence is confirmed by the record of the genes.
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Several specialists questioned whether there is enough fossil evidence yet to support a claim for a new genus.
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It is thought that the very first placental mammals were tiny insectivores, but no fossil evidence of them remains.
fuel
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This staining on marble is the result of dry deposition from sulphur dioxide gases produced by the burning of fossil fuels .
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An obvious and technically achievable alternative to fossil fuel combustion is nuclear fission.
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Alternative Energy Sources One of the major problems of fossil fuels and particularly coal is pollution.
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After all, your editorial on fossil fuels , fearlessly and correctly reported global warming data in degrees Celsius.
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Now, remaining supplies of fossil fuels should be saved, not squandered.
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But all fossil fuels , especially the cleanest anthracite, burn to produce abundant carbon dioxide.
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Nor do they contribute to environmental pollution by burning fossil fuels .
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The carbon tax could lead to a doubling of prices for fossil fuels .
record
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We also know that the fossil record is fragmentary in the extreme.
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We know about them from fossil records .
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Most are microscopic, and many have no skeleton and therefore lack a fossil record .
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The fossil record shows that species do not evolve, &038;.
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Crocodiles and lizards have a fossil record extending back to the Triassic, snakes to the Cretaceous.
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In the 1850s the fossil record began to yield evidence for a new kind of trend within the development of each class.
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The greatest problems in the fossil record , however, are the sudden extinctions.
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The growth of the human embryo recapitulated the history of animal life as revealed by the fossil record .
remains
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We know this from their fossil remains .
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Their fossil remains seem to occur with other animals and plants, which are generally accepted as terrestrial.
species
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Figure 7.1 illustrates the very obvious way in which a new fossil species may seem to be diachronous.
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A few other fossil species of Rhus are known from the Tertiary rocks.
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A major difficulty arises when fossil species disappear for good as the physical environment, over millions of years, inevitably changes.
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Ants frequently got caught in the pine resins that were destined to become amber, and numerous fossil species have been recognized.
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The thicker shelled species often carry a distinctive sculpture, which is also important in identifying fossil species.
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There are species living today related to this fossil species.
■ VERB
burn
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Do we carry on burning fossil fuels at rapid rates?
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We are hastening this process with the burning of fossil fuels.
contain
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Beneath the age of reptiles lay a series of formations containing the fossils only of aquatic creatures.
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The importance of the Temple Butte is that it contains fossil skeletons of primitive fish.
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Although none of these rocks contain fossils of shelled organisms, some of them do include fossils of single-celled microorganisms.
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The Phanerozoic time scale of rocks containing fossils of higher organisms represents 570 million years.
find
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Many species of coelacanth have been found as fossils .
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For example, you never find horse fossils among trilobite remains.&038;.
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A complete media is found in many Palaeozoic fossil insects and in the Ephemeroptera among recent forms.
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Paleontologists have found many transitional fossils representing intermediate forms in the evolution of one major form of life into another.
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Here, no vertebrates at all could be found , the fossils consisting only of invertebrates such as the trilobites.
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It will now be clear why you can sometimes find so many different fossil gastropod shells together in a single fossil deposit.
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Wave of hope Mars probe may have found fossil seas Scientists hope that they may yet discover life on Mars.
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After finding a fossil knee, Johanson needed a modern knee for comparison.
live
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They are living fossils , reminders of a universe now lost.
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The shock of seeing these living fossils of Xinjiang first led him to question their authenticity.
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Fortunately, whales-as much as viruses-are living fossils .
preserve
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Cartilage does not preserve as fossil as a rule, so most of the evidence of the shark-like fish rests upon teeth.
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The zooids themselves are, or course, not preserved as fossils - we only have their vacated homes.
reduce
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These will all reduce emissions from fossil fuels and so help combat global warming and acid deposition.
show
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The series of fossils shown here demonstrate the different sizes gastropods of one species attain.
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The fossil record shows that species do not evolve, &038;.
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More interesting still, recent fossil discoveries show that the hip bones of some giant dinosaurs were almost hollow.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Several dinosaur fossils were found in Montana.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I wanted to go out collecting fossils at a place about a mile from here.
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Lake beds are thought to be the most likely source of fossils.
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Paleontologists have found many transitional fossils representing intermediate forms in the evolution of one major form of life into another.
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Their fossils are commonest in Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous rocks.
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There have been several suggestions as to how fossil agnathans may fit into a scheme such as this.
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We know about them from fossil records.