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Re: is "in situ" really an adverb?

Alex Williams #194063 11/15/10 05:44 PM

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The phrase also seems to be used by paleontologists as an adjective to describe fossils found where in the same strata they were originally embedded in. You can google the term "in situ fossils."

Example usages at

http://en.scientificcommons.org/33282359

and

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1502-3931.2007.00029.x/abstract

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is "in situ" really an adverb? Alex Williams 11/15/10 04:02 PM

Re: is "in situ" really an adverb? TheFallibleFiend 11/15/10 05:44 PM

Re: is "in situ" really an adverb? Faldage 11/15/10 08:27 PM

Re: is "in situ" really an adverb? Candy 11/16/10 10:50 AM

Re: is "in situ" really an adverb? Faldage 11/16/10 12:25 PM

Re: is "in situ" really an adverb? Candy 11/18/10 01:30 AM

Re: is "in situ" really an adverb? Faldage 11/18/10 01:49 PM

When in italics, do as the italics Alex Williams 11/16/10 01:41 PM

Re: the yes and no of it zmjezhd 11/16/10 02:46 PM

Re: the yes and no of it Alex Williams 11/16/10 03:02 PM

Re: the yes and no of it quark 11/16/10 03:50 PM

Re: the yes and no of it tsuwm 11/16/10 04:12 PM

Re: the yes and no of it Alex Williams 11/16/10 04:24 PM

Re: the yes and no of it Faldage 11/16/10 05:49 PM

Re: sic, in principio zmjezhd 11/17/10 01:08 AM

Re: sic, in principio Avy 11/17/10 02:06 AM

Re: sic, in principio Alex Williams 11/17/10 05:34 AM

Re: head-driven phrase grammar zmjezhd 11/17/10 02:11 PM

Re: head-driven phrase grammar Alex Williams 11/17/10 06:01 PM

Re: head-driven phrase grammar zmjezhd 11/18/10 12:53 AM

Re: head-driven phrase grammar crash 11/18/10 04:33 PM

Re: head-driven phrase grammar zmjezhd 11/19/10 01:16 PM

Re: head-driven phrase grammar tsuwm 11/19/10 03:56 PM

Re: head-driven phrase grammar zmjezhd 11/19/10 05:33 PM

Re: the yes and no of it quark 11/17/10 04:06 PM

Re: "in situ" Judith O'Neil 11/17/10 07:29 PM

Re: "in situ" tsuwm 11/17/10 10:02 PM

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