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• Kingston Fossil Plant — Kingston Fossil Plant, commonly known as Kingston Steam Plant, is a Tennessee Valley Authority 1.7 GW coal burning power plant located at coord|35|53|54|N|84|31|08|W|display=inline,title in Kingston, Tennessee on the shore of Watts Bar Lake.… …   Wikipedia

• Bull Run Fossil Plant — Bull Run Fossil Plant, commonly known as Bull Run Steam Plant, is a coal fired electric generating station owned and operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority. It is located at coord|36|01|16|N|84|09|22|W|display=inline,title in the Claxton… …   Wikipedia

• Fossil Cycad National Monument — was a national monument in the U.S. state of South Dakota beginning in 1922. The site contained hundreds of fossil cycads, one of the world s greatest concentrations. Because vandals stole or destroyed all of the visible fossils, it was withdrawn …   Wikipedia

• Plant Scherer — The Scherer plant Robert W Scherer Power Plant is a coal fired power plant at Juliette, Georgia, just north of Macon, Georgia. The plant has four units, each producing 880 megawatts. It has two 1,001 foot (305 m) chimneys, the first… …   Wikipedia

• plant disease — ▪ plant pathology Introduction       an impairment of the normal state of a plant that interrupts or modifies its vital functions.       All species of plants, wild and cultivated alike, are subject to disease. Although each species is… …   Universalium

• Fossil Creek — is a perennial river in central Arizona, located near the community of Strawberry. The headwaters of the creek begin at Fossil Springs , a rare and powerful spring in Arizona, which produces upwards of one million gallons of water per… …   Wikipedia

• Plant anatomy — or phytotomy is the general term for the study of the internal structure of plants. While originally it included plant morphology, which is the description of the physical form and external structure of plants, since the mid Twentieth Century the …   Wikipedia

• fossil — [fäs′əl] n. [Fr fossile < L fossilis, dug out, dug up < fossus, pp. of fodere, to dig up < IE * bhedh , to dig in the earth > Welsh bedd, grave, OE bedd, BED] 1. Obs. any rock or mineral dug out of the earth 2. any hardened remains or …   English World dictionary

• fossil — 1610s (n.) any thing dug up; 1650s (adj.) obtained by digging, from Fr. fossile (16c.), from L. fossilis dug up, from fossus, pp. of fodere to dig, from PIE root *bhedh to dig, pierce. Restricted noun sense of geological remains of a plant or… …   Etymology dictionary

• Fossil — Fos sil, n. 1. A substance dug from the earth. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Note: Formerly all minerals were called fossils, but the word is now restricted to express the remains of animals and plants found buried in the earth. Ure. [1913 Webster] 2.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• fossil — ► NOUN 1) the remains or impression of a prehistoric plant or animal embedded in rock and preserved in petrified form. 2) humorous an antiquated person or thing. DERIVATIVES fossiliferous adjective fossilization (also fossilisation) noun… …   English terms dictionary