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Where do fossils come from?
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Posted By:
Rod
in the land of smarties.
Mar 10, 2005
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It all depends who you ask what answer you will get. Here is a hoax/spoof website that exploits the fundamentalist christian point of view.
"On Day Three the Creator fashioned an amazing array of plant life. He mischeviously and creatively imbedded them perfectly in the firmament made the day before."
http://www.illinoisretail.com/humor/fossilshop/fossilshop.html
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Nick
in Merrie Olde Englande
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Posted: Fri May 06, 2005 | 11:56 AM
mikey,
Some animals were quickly buried after their death (by sinking in mud, being buried in a sand storm, etc.).
Over time, more and more sediment covered the remains.
The parts of the animals that didn't rot (usually the harder parts likes bones and teeth) were encased in the newly-formed sediment.
In the right circumstances (no scavengers, quick burial, not much weathering), parts of the animal turned into fossils over time.
After a long time, the chemicals in the buried animals' bodies underwent a series of changes. As the bone slowly decayed, water infused with minerals seeped into the bone and replaced the chemicals in the bone with rock-like minerals. The process of fossilization involves the dissolving and replacement of the original minerals in the object with other minerals (and/or permineralization, the filling up of spaces in fossils with minerals, and/or recrystallization in which a mineral crystal changes its form).
This process results in a heavy, rock-like copy of the original object - a fossil. The fossil has the same shape as the original object, but is chemically more like a rock! Some of the original hydroxy-apatite (a major bone consitiuent) remains, although it is saturated with silica (rock).
everyone else,
who is with me in saying this site should have a permanent link to this site? |
LaMa
in Europe
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Posted: Fri May 06, 2005 | 01:18 PM
hi can you tell me how fossils work im only 13 - mikey (13)
They get a wake-up shake from their wifes, which have coffee and breakfast, slippers and morning paper ready. They shower and put on a grey suit, take their business briefcase, kiss their wifes (who stay at home and do the dishes), jump on the bus and and go to office. There they spend the day filling and filing paper sheets and making chains of paper clips, being suplied with coffee by a fat lady with an East End accent. If they use a pc at all, it is with two fingers, and probably with a focus on porn.
Basically that is how fossils work. Additional info is that they are usually bald. When they go home again at fiive, their wifes await them with the evening newspaper, a beer or a cup of tea, and diner cooking. In th vening h will watch th nine 0'cock neews while the wife iis doing the dishes. |
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