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Sedimentary rock, its rarely found in metamorphic and never found in igneous rock because it would make the fossil of the animal worped and changed. It wouldn't be with the original form on metamorphic and igneous would destroy the whole fossil.
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∙ 11y agofossils are only found in sedimentary rocks because igneous rocks would burn them and metamorphic would burn and crush them.
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∙ 11y agouasally formed in sedemintery rocks
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∙ 11y agoFossils have been mostly found in Sendimentary rocks..
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∙ 11y agoBecause fossils are preserved evidence of life, a rock would not form a fossil. A fossil would most likely appear in sedimentary rock of some sort, like limestone or sandstone.
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∙ 9y agoSedemintary rocks
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∙ 13y agosedimentary
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Do all rocks form fossils?
No, fossils are actually very difficult to find. The majority of fossils found are marine invertebrates. They are usually found in sedimentary rock. However, there is plenty of sedimentary rock that contains no fossils at all.
What does the rock cycle have anything to do with fossils?
Sedimentary rocks are rocks that are formed by layers of different things compacting very tightly. These layers can have a lot of different things in them, like fossils. So, sedimentary rocks are partially made up of fossils.
What sedimentary rock often has fossils?
Paleontologists are looking for fossils in sedimentary rock.
Which is a factor that prevents us from finding the Precambrian fossils?
most rock form that era are deeply buried.
What kind of sedimentary rock is made from the remains of organisms or fossils?
Clastic sedimentary rocks, like conglomerate and sandstone.
What kind of rocks would you find fossils in and why?
Fossils are found in sedimentary rock because it is layers of sand, rock, and sediments, and the bones fall between the layers where the form into fossil's.
What type of rock can form fossils?
a lot of rocks can sometimes can become a fossils. igneous rock
The kind of rock that you are most likely to find in fossils?
Fossils are most likely to be found in sedimentary rock.
Why do rock fossils form in sedimentary rock and not in igneous rock-?
Fossils are formed in sedimentary rock because the rock is formed at temperatures that do not destroy the fossils like the igneous rocks would.
What kind of rocks usually have fossils?
The kind of rock is sedimentary.
What kind of igneous rock does not have fossils?
obsidian
Which kind of rock has fossils?
layer rocks
What kind of rock are in fossils?
sedimentary rocks.
What is the kind of rock that you are most likely to find fossils in?
Sedimentary rock
What kind of rock is the site of most fossils?
Sedimentary rock exposures.
Most fossils form in?
Flowers Fossils come out of sedimentary rock. == ==
How do rock fossils form?
over time.
