How long does fossilization take?

Answer 1

12,000 years and 1.2 million years

Answer 2

A home made one takes about 5 hours while a real one take about a few hundred years minimum.

The above is not strictly true. Fossils can be created in natural circumstances in just a matter of a few decades. The well-known story of the fossilised miner's hat shows that fossilisation of substances can take place within 50 years or so.

Answer 3

Fossilization happens over time, but fossils can take just a few years to form. Most of the fossils that have been unearthed have been in formation over hundreds or thousands of years, and the location of the fossil in the soil determines the possible age.

Answer 4

It would depend on the location, humidity, temperature, and the pressure applied. This means fossils could be made in a couple of years deep near a volcano, or slow compression in a wet grassland taking centuries.

Answer 5

If by sediment you mean the sedimentary layer of rock which is now exposed on the cliff face, it probably took hundred of thousands, if not millions of years for the process of lithification of the sediments to occur. Lithification, or the process of rock forming from sediments, usually involves compaction by overlying material from tidal or seasonal deposition of sediments occurring over long periods of time.

Answer 6

• it takes like aboat 10 thousand years

Answer 7

It depends on the dinosaur if its small or if its like a T-rex (i can update this info late if needed).

Answer 8

millions of years