it will be wet but they have rust
fossils
It would tell you that an ocean once existed there and then withdrew.
In the United States, the land owner would own the fossils and gems.
Well for one, It can tell us that the land was once covered in water.
Mesosaurus fossils
Well for one, It can tell us that the land was once covered in water.
The Earths crust has been moving around for millions of years. many places where we noe find fossils that lived in the ocean were once under the water. land being pushed up and the water level in the oceans dropping explain why fossils are now found on dry land.
It can help show that continental drift happened, if you find the same fossils on different continents. This would mean that the continents had to be close together if the fossils are found on land.
We find matching types of ancient fossils separated on coinciding land masses across the Atlantic Ocean, where Brazil would abut Africa.
sedimentary rock -sedimentary rock because organisms die on land or on the bottom of a body of water and the sediments cover it and harden to form fossils. -also, limestone can form fossils.
They live on land. They would not survive in water.
Water would cause the land close to the water to washout