Fossils

The Mudstone was packed so tightly around the fish that moisture, warmth and oxygen could not reach it and begin the process of decay. This is why most fossalised fish found in Mudstone are still intact with skin and bone!

Amber and petrified wood are both formed from organic material, with amber being fossilized tree resin and petrified wood being fossilized wood. Both can contain preserved organisms and have a similar appearance due to their fossilization process. They are valued for their beauty and used in jewelry and decorative items.

covered up quickly, also important depending on the type of fossilization, water running through the area. Key would be the mineral replacement offered to the fossil.

The bedrock in Syracuse, New York, belongs to the Marcellus Formation, which is a Devonian-aged formation, approximately 390-370 million years old.

carbonaceous film

past environments

yes they are very dangerous, if you breathe next to it then you will die of fatal Tartarus Moricus. Symptons are : Fevers, Running nose, and Hyper activity. Hoped i helped!

1. The Adirondack rocks have been both severely folded and sheared by ductile deformation and shattered by brittle.

The area was probably a wet area like a lake or an ocean that dried out some time after the fish died. (you should know this stuff!!)

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Cyanobacteria fossils are the oldest known fossils on Earth. Stromatolites found near Shark Bay, Western Australia, which are made by cyanobacteria, have been dated back to 3.5 billion years in the Paleoarchean Era . They survive to modern day. Identical stromatolites are being formed not 15 miles from there 3.5 billion year old fossilised ancestors.

Icthyosaurs on the other had appeared in the fossil record about 245 million years ago in the Middle Triassic Epoch. They died out about 90 million years ago in the Upper Cretaceous Epoch, about 25 million years before the KT extinction that saw the deaths of the other great marine reptiles the mosasaurs and the pleisoasurs as well as all non avian dinosaurs.

The earliest fossils known are in the form of stromatolites formed by cyanobacteria about 3.5 billion years ago.

To say however that these are the first life forms is not likely to be correct. Cyanobacteria are already a relatively complex single celled organism. It is likely that simpler forms preceded them but so far no evidence of this has been found.

Trilobites were warm blooded creatures that lived in the ocean from the cambrian period all the way until they were wiped out in in the permian period.

Oldest fossils have been found in many areas of the Great Persian Empire. This was in ancient history, when Cyrus The Great ruled Persia. At the time of his rule many archaeologists found fossils dating back to 1 billion years ago from creatures never thought of by any human. Persia is modern day Iran, and is going through many revolutions, however if you ever decide to go there, there is a Museum called, "Kootlet", it contains many of the most ancient fossils ever discovered by man kind!

Hope this helps,

Mr Smith

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Some people who reject the biblical account of Creation think that living things went though gradual changes (biological evolution) from one kind to another. In order to support their beliefs, they find fossils that, when lined up, seem to show a continuous change from simpler organisms to a much larger and more complex one. But fossils for the most part do not show gradual changes from one kind to another. They are clearly one kind or another not something in between. For example; fossils of mice exist and fossils of bats exist, but no fossils of half-winged, mouse like creatures have been found.

It's "well-preserved".

Perhaps, as we will likely be on earth a relatively short time, we are abundant and are wide spread geographically.

Shale is made from layers of mud and clay pressed together. :)

Uranium dating methods were not used for fossils dating.

550 million years old

Mold

well you have to dig in a place that you might fossils and you start diging up and you start seeing bones

amber and ice

There woul be no more sights to see because all the prints would be gone or covered with human foot prints.