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Q: How is evidence of past life preserved in sedimentary rock?
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What provides geologist with evidence of earths past including geologic events and life forms?

The rocks of Earth's crust, especially sedimentary rocks


Is coal evidence of lifes past?

Coal is evidence of past plant life.


What are the remains of past life found in sedimentary rock?

sometimes fossils


What determines a fossil?

A fossil is simply any evidence of past life that is preserved in rock. That would include trails, footprints, burrows, poop, nests, bones, shells, and any other evidences.


In what type of rock would geologist most likely find evidence of past life forms?

Sedimentary rock and limestone in particular, because it is normally formed from the skeletons of mostly minute dead marine organisms.


In what type of rocks would geologist most likely find evidence of past life forms?

Sedimentary rock and limestone in particular, because it is normally formed from the skeletons of mostly minute dead marine organisms.


Fossil and sedimentary rocks form under specific conditions so their presence in certain lacations provides evidence for?

past environments


What was the preserved remains of ancient organisms called?

The preserved remains of animals of evidence of their existence are Fossils Fosssils that provide evidence about the past are called trace fossils.


What is a fossil.?

A fossil is any evidence of ancient life that is preserved in stone or other material. Fossils can include molds, casts, defecation material, stomach stones, bones, footprints, trails and burrows. Fossils can be preserved in sedimentary rock (and rarely metamorphic and igneous rock), tar pits, and amber, and are usually the result of the organism being covered rapidly upon death. Fossils are very important in helping us trace the history of life on Earth and the evolutionary relationships between organisms of the past and present.


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Does Saturn show evidence of past life?

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Sedimentary rocks record past geological events and what else?

They also record the history of life and climate.