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What types of dating estimates the age of a rock or fossil?
The rough estimating of the age of a fossil or rock containing fossils is called relative dating, and is based on the position of the rock or fossil in undisturbed sedimentary strata which contains what are called 'index fossils', fossils that only appear in specific geologic time periods.
What type of rock do you fine fossils?
fossils are fine in metamorphic 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.
Is shale a biochemical rock?
No. Shale is a clastic sedimentary rock.
How can fossil correlation be used to determine the ages of rock layer?
dont care
Which is a biochemical rock that contains fossils?
Limestone ;) <3
What sedimentary rock often has fossils?
Paleontologists are looking for fossils in sedimentary rock.
How would you explain a horizontal sedimentary rock layer containing Cambrian fossils lying on top of a rock layer containing Ordovician fossils?
The Adirondack rocks have been both severely folded and sheared by ductile deformation and shattered by brittle.
What type of a rock is a biochemical?
No rock could be a biochemical.
What do paleontologist often find in sedimentary Rock?
fossils
What is importance of sedimentary Rock?
They Often Contain fossils.
What kind of rock often contain fossils?
sedimentary
Something paleontologist often find in the sedimentary rock?
fossils
What rock contain fosils?
Quite often, fossils are contained within shale rock.
What types of dating estimates the age of a rock or fossil?
The rough estimating of the age of a fossil or rock containing fossils is called relative dating, and is based on the position of the rock or fossil in undisturbed sedimentary strata which contains what are called 'index fossils', fossils that only appear in specific geologic time periods.
Archaeologists tend to find fossils most often embedded in which type of rock?
Sedimentary rock layers
What type of sedimentary rock is chalk clastic chemical or biochemical?
Chalk is a biochemical sedimentary rock.
