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Fossils
This category is for questions about the bones, fragments, imprints, and other remainders from a different time. The questions and answer you will find here are history set in stone -- our past, immortalized in solid rock. You will also be able to find questions pertaining to the locations of these fossils, how you might identify them, and how they were formed.
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A fossil of a plant, insect, animal - carbonized; the meaning of carbonized is reduced only to a carbon footprint.
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How are rock layers used to determine the relative ages of fossils?
The Principle of Superposition argues that rock layers towards the top are younger than those at the bottom. This was the principal technique used in the early days.
Fossils have discontinuities - a group will appear, and after a time will vanish again. But very similar fossils appear around the world at the same time.
This subject paleontology, has good records, and a newly found fossil can usually be identified by comparison with the paleontological record.
Today of course, radiometric dating is used very widely to determine the age of both rocks themselves, and of fossils. These techniques use the half-life of radioactive elements to determine the age.
How carbon imprint fossils made?
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a cast of a fossil that makes it lighter and easier to transport and study
How long does it take to form a fossil?
There are many types of fossilization. Some take a surprisingly few number of years, and others occur over periods of millions of years.
Is fossil which is present in more than one facies or environment. Body of rock with features that distinguish it from other bodies of rock
What conditions were needed to turn the plants and animals into fossils?
near immediate plastering by mud and afterwards a period of drought and even then, many fossils are destroyed by nature and are generally very fragile
Why are fossils important to scientist?
it gives information about the past which to scientists is important to know
What does the fossil record gourmet say is needed to make a fossil?
A living thing.
Look at the Bill Nye Fossils video for more
Why aren't fossils found in metamorphic rock?
Because metamorphic rocks usually are subject to large amounts of pressure. This pressure can break down all the grains in the sedimentary rock, and the fossils will be broken down as well. It's still the same material, but it has a different shape.
Fossils such as trilobites that can be used to estabish the age of rocks are called?
I think they are called Index Fossils...
What are the importance of fossils?
Fossils can be described as little traces of past life. They help in studying the history of the earth since they give important information regarding living things that were in existence and what may have caused their death.
What led hooke to argue that fossils had once been living organisms?
hooke published his conclusion that fossils are remains of plants and animals .
Fossilized remains of single-celled organisms similar to modern bacteria have been found in rocks more than 1.5 billion years old. These fossils provide valuable insight into Earth's ancient environments and the evolution of early life forms.
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Where were fossils of carnotaurus sastrel recently found?
As I konow they lived in Patagonia, Argentina, so probbably fossils were found there.
By comparing fossils of a species from long ago to those of today you can conclude that?
today's species evolved from those of the past.
Did Everything that died long ago become fossils?
Lots of things did but not EVERYTHING lots of the smaller things Became oil and coal It was mostly big things that became Fossills. Lots of things did but not EVERYTHING lots of the smaller things Became oil and coal It was mostly big things that became Fossills.
When did trilobites first appear in fossil record?
The first trilobites appear about the same time in Siberian, Moroccan and North American strata of about 524 million years of age, at the start of series 2 of the Cambrian Period. The first trilobites include fallotaspidoids Profallotaspis, Eofallotaspis, and Fritzaspis, but also include an ellipsocephaloid, Hupetina. For the role of trilobites in biostratigraphy, see this page: http://www.trilobites.info/biostratigraphy.htm
