Elsewhere, beekite has been compared to silcrete, indicating a break in sedimentation, where it occurs as encrustations on clasts of carbonate rock in the Palaeocene alluvial fan deposits of central Anatolia.
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A study of the taphonomy of silicified fossils ( especially brachiopods ) in Devon concluded beekite resulted from the aerobic decomposition of organic matter in an environment with a limited supply of silica during early diagenesis.
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Beekite, recognised as small, concentric rings ( cylinders, ellipsoids, or spheres in 3D ) of microcrystalline quartz is recorded as first brought to attention of geologists by Henry Beeke, probably from studies around Torbay.
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