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What characteristics of fossils are most useful in correlating sedimentary rock layer?
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What fossils are useful in determining the relative age of rocks?
Index fossils
Why are index fossils more useful then other fossils to paleontologist?
It is because the index fossils has better minds than the paleontologist.
How fossils are formed in sedimentary rock?
There are multiple methods of fossilization, but fossils generally are formed by rapid burial of organisms or traces of organisms by sediments. The website of the New York State Geological Survey offers a useful introduction to the differing processes of fossil formation. Please see the related link for details.
Why aren't fossils from metamorphic rocks useful?
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Why are index fossils are more useful to paleontologists than many other fossils?
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What fossils are most useful for correlation tend to be?
Fossils that are the most useful for correlation tend to be found in various types of rocks, are widespread, and easy to recognize. One rock type where fossils are found is sedimentary rocks.
What makes sedimentary rocks especially useful to scientists and historians?
Sedimentary rock are made of materials that could show what lived where. Also they are the only rock to hold fossils.
In what ways are fossils useful to geologists?
In what ways are fossils useful to geologist?
What type of rock is most useful historical geologists?
Geologists love sedimentary rock because the fossils give a quick reference to their date of formation and environment of deposition.
Why are sedimentary rocks useful to scientists'?
Mainly because the fossils of plants and animals preserved in the sediment layers allow dating of events that happened before humans existed.
How are index fossils useful to geologist?
Index fossils provide a reference of time throughout rock layers. In order to be a good index fossil, the life form must have lived for a short and specific amount of time and must have existed over a large area. Index fossils serve as a reference to geologists in correlating rock layers. They can match up (or correlate) the index fossils which helps them match up (or correlate) the rock layers.
What fossils are useful in determining the relative age of rocks?
Index fossils
How is fossils useful?
they are useful for alot of things like petrol
Why are fossils useful adjuncts to radiometric dating techniques in determining the age of rock specimens?
Index fossils, which are geographically widespread, of a quickly evolving specie, and only present in sedimentary strata of a particular geologic age, are generally reliable in setting a general time range for the age of a rock specimen.
Why are index fossils more useful then other fossils to paleontologist?
It is because the index fossils has better minds than the paleontologist.
How fossils are formed in sedimentary rock?
There are multiple methods of fossilization, but fossils generally are formed by rapid burial of organisms or traces of organisms by sediments. The website of the New York State Geological Survey offers a useful introduction to the differing processes of fossil formation. Please see the related link for details.
How are the characteristics of index fossils useful to geologists?
It gives information to scientists about the past. It also provides a reference of time throught rock layers. It can identify and define geological periods of time.
