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What are the remains of once living organisms found in sedimentary rock?
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Is the outline of a fern found in a rock a fossil?
i bet ur doin that spring break science test right? well the answer is sedimentary. fossils of fern leaves would most likely be found in sedimentary rocks. your welcome
Where is carbon found in the biosphere?
In the atmosphere as Carbon Dioxide (Co2) Underground as fossil fuels and calcium carbonate rock In the oceans as dissolved Co2
Type of rock in which most fossils are found?
Sedimentary rock is where we look for fossils.
Fossils are found only in .?
Sedimentary rocks
The kind of rock that you are most likely to find in fossils?
Fossils are most likely to be found in sedimentary rock.
What are the remains of once-living orgainismsfound in sedimentary rocks?
All fossils are found in sedimentary rocks. Some sedimentary rocks are made of nothing but fossils such as chalk. A creature ( microscopic or larger) skeleton is deposited after death usually on the ocean floor. Sediments cover it, and over time turns into a fossil.
What are remains of once living organism found in sedimentary rocks?
Fossils.
What are the remains of once living organisims found in sedimentary rocks?
fossils
What is a rock formed from the remains of living things called?
These remains are called fossils.
Which word means the remains or imprints of once-living organisms found in layers of rock?
Fossil.
Why don't we find fossils in igneous and metamorphic rocks?
Fossils are remains or impressions of living organisms and they are found in the sediments in or near where they lived. Living organisms cannot live in a molten magma which cools to become an igneous rock. Metamorphic rocks used to be sedimentary and igneous rocks but they were buried very deep under mountains and any traces of fossils in the sedimentary layers have been removed by the heat and pressure which altered the rock.
What are the remains of past life found in sedimentary rock?
sometimes fossils
Which word means the historyof life in the geologic past as indicated by the imprints or remains of living things?
The word is "paleontology." It is the study of the history of life based on the imprints or remains of living organisms found in rocks and fossils.
What type of rock would bones or shells and plant remains be found?
limestone-sedimentary
Why are fossils found mostly in a sedimentary rock?
Because when the lava killed the animals, their remains stayed in the lava and dried to become sedimentary rock.
Why are fossils formed in sedimentary rocks but not in igneous rocks?
Because sedimentery rock is formed under the sea, sediment collects at the bottom of the ocean, and so does a few dead sea creatures, then t gets squashed by other sediment, igneous rock is formed by lava cooling, so there is no fossils in it.
What type of rock is a fossil?
A fossil is evidence of an organisms existence, not a type of rock. Most fossils are found in sedimentary rocks.
