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What group of organisms provides skeletal remains for chalk deposition?
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Where did you probably find a deposit of limestone what type of setting did it form in?
Limestone is formed on the floor of ancient seas from the skeletal remains of marine organisms such as coral, forams and molluscs, etc.
What area specializes in the identification and examination of skeletal remains?
biology
Minerals seeping into an organisms remains form what?
Minerals seeping into an organisms remains form fossils. sediment
Organisms that get energy by breaking down the remains of dead organisms?
DECOMPOSERS
What do most protist heterotrophs eat?
These organisms eat other organisms, parts or product of other organisms or the remains of the organisms
Can shells become limestone?
They can, and do. Chalk and coquina are examples of limestone formed from skeletal or shell remains of marine organisms.
Where did sedimentary deposits come from?
Sedimentary deposits came from and still come from the weathering and erosion of surface features and from the deposition of the remains of organisms.
Do coral reefs have bones?
Yes. Coral is both the living and skeletal remains of Marine organisms. These in effect are the bones of the animals.
How is Dolomite formed in nature?
When magnesium carbonate replaces part of all the calcium magnesium in limestone skeletal remains marine organisms.
Is limestone made up of fragments of granitic and andesitic rocks?
No. Limestone is formed from precipitated calcite or from the shells or skeletal remains of marine organisms.
What type of sedimentary rock forms from carbonate minerals precipitating from freshwater springs?
various types of limestone. . .including anything from skeletal remains of micro organisms and coral.
Where did you probably find a deposit of limestone what type of setting did it form in?
Limestone is formed on the floor of ancient seas from the skeletal remains of marine organisms such as coral, forams and molluscs, etc.
Are coral reefs skeletal remains?
Basically...................yes.
What is liquid from the remains of marine organisms?
Fossils are formed from the buried remains of marine organisms. These organisms are under a tremendous amount of pressure and, over time, they fossilize.
What are the sediments in organic sedimentary rocks?
Skeletal and plant remains.
What area specializes in the identification and examination of skeletal remains?
biology
How do you put the word remains in a sentence?
The detective analyzed the skeletal remains found at the crime scene.
