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Fossils are frequently found in shales.
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What can be found in limestone rocks?
Fossils.
Are mammal fossils found in rock?
Fossils of animals and plants can be found in sedimentary rock (limestone, chalk, slate, etc).
What sedimentary rock often has fossils?
Paleontologists are looking for fossils in sedimentary rock.
What rock type in which you might find fossils?
sedimentary rocks are what fossils are found in
Are all fossils found in rock?
Limestone, shale, sandstone, and chert are the biggies when it comes to fossils.
In what type of sedimentary rock do you think might find fossils?
Most likely, fossils are found in shale, limestone, sandstone, coal, and chert.
Where are most fossils found-?
Fossils can be found all over the world, usually in sedimentary rock, which comprises the bedrock of the majority of the planet. Limestone and shale are particularly good fossil medium.
What type of rocks have fossils found in them?
Fossils are nearly always found in some type of sedimentary rock. Limestone is a sedimentary rock which very commonly contains fossils, as is coal.
What type of rock do geologists and archaelogist study because they contain fossils?
Most fossils are preserved in sedimentary rocks such as mud-stones and shales. Fossils can also be found in metamorphic rocks and in some cases igneous rocks like tuffs can preserve organisms (like Pompeii).
Fossils are found mainly in- - - rock?
Limestone and sandstone. The rock needs to be one that's formed from sedimentation around the dead animal.
Fossils are most likely found in what rock?
No. They are usually found in sedimentary rock.
What type of rock are you likely to find a fosil in?
Limestone mostly, sometimes in shale and coal.
