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How are fossils<br />

formed?<br />

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Can you see the dinosaur tracks?! 6<br />

Also, the layers of rock which are lower down will be the oldest as<br />

they were deposited first. So the fossils in these layers will be from<br />

earlier times than fossils in rock layers which are closer to the<br />

surface.<br />

How did the bodies of animals <strong>and</strong> plants get into the<br />

rock?<br />

Have you perhaps seen the body of adead bird? Dogs, flies, ants<br />

<strong>and</strong> beetles all take away the parts of the body. The wind blows<br />

away the feathers <strong>and</strong> soon there is nothing left to see.<br />

But sometimes it does not happen like that. Imagine an animal<br />

died near a river. There was a flood <strong>and</strong> the river quickly covered the<br />

body with s<strong>and</strong>. In years after that, more floods brought more<br />

s<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong> put it on top. The heavy s<strong>and</strong> pressed down on the<br />

bottom sediments. Slowly, the bottom sediments became<br />

sedimentary rock.<br />

Let's try to make our own model to underst<strong>and</strong> how fossils are<br />

formed in sedimentary rock!<br />

144 Earth <strong>and</strong> Beyond

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