How does the plate tectonics theory help explain the existence of fossil marine life formed by collusion?
Um, do you probably mean collision? Because collusion is basically a secret back-channel agreement, usually illegal, to gain an unfair advantage over a competitor. But fossils in a collision? Fossils of marine life are not formed by collision. They’re formed by dying on a near-shore or lacustrine environment, then rapidly covered by sediments, then, if they’re lucky, turned into mineralized fossils, usually by mineral replacement by minerals carried in groundwater. The significance of collisions and marine fossils is that they can demonstrate a geologic history of an environment. For example, the European Alps very clearly show radically folded layers of sedimentary rock. In this sedimentary rock are marine fossils, all the way up to their highest point, Mont Blanc, at 4,810.9 m (15,783.8 ft) above the Mediterranean Sea! Basically, a plate collision scraped sediments off of the ocean floor, folded them over, and made a mountain range. This was a key part the allowed us geologists to re
