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What materials other than sediment have preserved plants and animals as fossils?
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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.
What can scientists learn about from fossils found in sea floor sediment?
The climate at the time the fossile was preserved. :)
What is Carbonaceus film?
Carbonaceous film fossils are traces of plants or animals preserved as a thin film of carbon. All living organisms contain carbon. If they are compressed by layers of sediment fine details of the organism may be preserved.
What types of evidence of ancient life can preserved as fossils?
Fossils can be made of any material that deteriorates slower than the sediment that forms the fossil hardens
What types of evidence of ancient life can be preserved as fossils?
Fossils can be made of any material that deteriorates slower than the sediment that forms the fossil hardens
What are remains of plants and animals that were buried very quickly in sediment during floods?
fossils
What can animals not be preserved in as fossils?
Animals are not preserved as fossils. Fossils are imprints of the organism where the body has been replaced by rock minerals. They are most usually found in sedimentary rocks, occasionally in metamorphic rock but never in igneous rock.
What are traces of plants or animals that have preserved in rock?
Fossils is the word
Why do we find fossils in sedimentary rock?
When ancient animals and plants died, their bodies might be covered in silt, mud, sand, etc. Over an extremely long time, the sediment may be turned into sedimentary rock. The preserved remains are what we know as fossils.
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.
The remains of animals and plants which have been preserved in rocks are known as?
fossils
What are animals or plants preserved in sedimentary rocks?
I would say fossils .
