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What are the conditions needed for a fossil to form in a sediment or rock?

April 26, 2017Conditions earth form Fossil Geology Mathematics needed sciences sediment

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What are the conditions needed for a fossil to form in a sediment or rock?

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The remains generally need to get into oxygen poor conditions and then covered. Burial need not occur quickly in all cases, and there’s a wide variety of different routes; mud, volcanic ash falls, sand and so on and so forth. The study of the processes of fossilization is called taphonomy.