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Necessary Conditions for the Fossilization Process

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Describe the conditions necessary for fossilization and relate how the location where a fossil is found can be used to determine its age as well as how 14C is used.

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Problem: Describe the conditions necessary for fossilization and relate how the location where a fossil is found can be used to determine its age as well as how 14C is used.

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Creation of a fossil depends on:
-rapid burial (usually in sediment, ice, amber, tar)
-slowed rate of decomposition
-replacement of organic matter with minerals (temperature, pressure, acidity, moisture, sediment composition)

Fossils can be formed (from ref 2):
-by unaltered preservation (like insects or plant parts trapped in amber, a hardened form of tree sap)
-permineralization=petrification (in which rock-like minerals seep in slowly ...

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