Why can volcanic rocks occasionally contain fossils?
A) Lava does not melt bones.
B) Volcanic ash, if builds quickly enough, can preserve the remains of organisms.
C) Magma cools so quickly that fossils get trapped inside.
D) Organisms were often attracted to volcanoes and fell inside them by accident.
Question 2
Which statement about compaction is false?
A) Grains of sand are crushed into a smaller volume.
B) Spaces between grains are decreased.
C) Flakes of minerals are broken.
D) Compaction may be caused by the weight of overlying sediment.
Plant fossils.
Eastern skunk cabbage, an endothermic plant, can melt its way up through spring snow cover
On the slopes of Chimborazo, a 6,310 m high volcanic peak in the Andes Mountains of Ecuador, Alexand
Bones of the lower extremity.
Ngandong calottes from Java are the youngest H. erectus fossils at perhaps 27,000-50,000 years old.
Earth’s Oldest Preserved Rocks – 3.8 Billion Years Old, Greenland