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This video lesson explains how fossils found in rock layers can provide evidence for changes in a landscape over time. (NGSS 4-ESS1-1: Identify evidence from patterns in rock formations...
This time for an explainer on the process that created the Petrified Forest of Petrified Forest National Park: Petrification.
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5 kwi 2021 · Petrified rock is a type of fossil known as a replacement fossil. Replacement fossils are replicas of things that were once alive, such as trees, sea creatures, or the bones of an animal. The living thing dies and is trapped in the ground. As it lays there, it is covered by mineral rich water.
2. Fossils are found in ……………………………………… rocks. 3. ……………………………………….. are places that allow anyone to look for and collect their own fossils. 4. Fossils where the bone and other living material have been replaced by deposited minerals, are known as ...
28 lut 2024 · A fossil is the preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living organism from a past geological age. These include bones, shells, exoskeletons, stone imprints of animals or microbes, objects preserved in amber, hair, petrified wood, oil, coal, and DNA remnants.
Summary: Petrified fossils result from permineralization, the replacement of once-living matter by minerals. Solutions containing silicates, carbonates, iron or other minerals seep into the gaps and spaces between the cells, first encasing the cells and eventually replacing the cells themselves.
