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What would be the correct word? Specimen?

An ichnofossil is the fossil of activity of a living thing.

But specimen seems like it might work as long as you’re not using wet / embalmed with it.

Vitrification maybe almost works, but doesn’t seem to really work for a snowflake.

Aquastasis ? (Joking)

Apologies. After reading this I’m now wracking my brain trying to figure out what would be the correct word to apply to creating a /mold/ model / sample of a snowflake.



I believe it would just be called a casting or impression, even if it were an ancient object that had been preserved across geological ages.


Thank you! That makes a ton of sense. I somehow couldn’t make that connection mentally.

Now we just need some special rule to make them into fossils… maybe if they’re over 20,000 years old- double the specimen quasi rule.


Petrified? Like petrified dunes? Simply preserved?


Imprint, maybe?




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