Fossils

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Carbonized Fossil

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Forms when organisms or parts are pressed between layers of soft mud or clay that hardens squeezing almost all decaying organisms away leaving the carbon imprint in the rock.

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Cast Fossil

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Forms when mold is fill with sand or mud that hardens into the shape of the organism

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Fossil

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The preserved remains or traces of an organism that lived in the past

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Fossil Record

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Gives important information about past life and environments on earth, extinction of life forms as well as how and when new life forms appeared is part of his

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Mold fossil

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Forms when sediments bury an organism, change into rock,organism decays leaving in a cavity in the shape of the organism

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Petrified fossil

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Forms when minerals soak into buried remains replacing the remains and changing them into rock

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Preserved fossil

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Forms when the entire organisms or part organisms are prevented from the decaying by being trapped into rock ice tar or amber

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Trace fossil

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Forms when the mud or sand hardens into stone where a footprint trail or burrow of an organism was left behind

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