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on: Jul 16, 2018
How could there be fossils of marine organisms at the tops of mountains?
 
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What are sea cliffs evidence of?
 
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Reply #1 on: Jul 16, 2018
Answer to Question 1

Answer: Because of tectonics, and the movement of the plates on Earth. Such fossils are evidence for the uplift of the surface rock which forms mountains.

Answer to Question 2

Answer: uplift in coastal regions, with the upper portion above the cliff being the relic shoreline


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