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You fossilize something by having it first fall in rock... then it gets covered in setimentary rock.... most likely and stays over in rock for many years. It then gets covered in rock and hardens and is fossilized!
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∙ 16y ago
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∙ 8y agoFirst of all, the animal that died had to be quickly and fully covered by a substance that prevents oxygen getting to the corpse and starting a process of decomposition. Drowning in mud or quickly getting covered by a thick layer of sand would be some of the things to do the trick.
Over a very considerable period of time, the original minerals of the body parts would mostly dissolve, the resulting 'empty' spaces being replaced by other, rock-like minerals that form an exact copy of the original parts.
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∙ 9y agoDifferent chemical and physical processes create fossils. Some of these processes are freezing, drying and encasement in tar or resin.
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Which organisms have the best chance to be preserved?
fossilized shell
How is asphalt formed in the rock cycle?
Asphalt is not a rock, but is produced from the remains of fossilized organisms.
What are four ways that organisms can be fossilized?
imprints gastroliths coproliths molds
What groups include organisms that are a key source of food in all aquatic environments and whose fossilized forms are used as a filter and as a grinding and polishing agent?
Diatoms
What covers a dead organism on land?
Sediment covers dead organisms to be fossilized. On land the organism could fall into a lake or swamp, or it can be covered by sand or volcanic ash.
How are organisms fossilized?
THEY ARE SORTED BY SIZE
Which organisms have the best chance to be preserved?
fossilized shell
What is a biostrome?
A biostrome is a horizontally-bedded stratum of fossilized remains of sedentary organisms.
How is asphalt formed in the rock cycle?
Asphalt is not a rock, but is produced from the remains of fossilized organisms.
What is fossilized coral made of?
Dead organisms that were living million / billion/S of years ago.
Organisms with hard parts stand a good chance of being fossilized if they are?
Rapidly buried by sediments
What are four ways that organisms can be fossilized?
imprints gastroliths coproliths molds
Most organisms or only a comparatively few wind up in the fossil record?
Less than 1% of all organisms that die become fossilized.
What are fossilized remains of single-celled organisms similar to modern bacteria exist in rocks that are more than 1.5 million years old?
Microfossils are fossilized remains of single-celled organisms similar to modern bacteria. They exist in rocks that are more than 3.5 billion years old.
What would retain the most detailed impressions of fossilized organisms?
An ancient, rainforest lateritic soil buried by basalt lava flows
How are amber fossils different from regular fossils?
Amber is fossilized tree resin, while most fossils are made from the remains of organisms.
Why did the earliest organims in the fossil record start off single celled?
It took many years of evolution for complex, multi-celled organisms to develop. Single celled organisms were the first that were around to be fossilized.
