Explain how a fossil can be presented in one rock outcrop bus missing in the same rock layer in another rock..

outcrop?Explain how a fossil can be presented in one rock outcrop bus missing in the same rock layer in another rock..
Just because a fossil is present in one rock layer doesn't mean there will be another fossil in another layer of the same rock.


Perhaps you didn't word your questions correctly.


Consider this analogy: You have rolled out a layer of clay and sprinkled it with paper clips. Then you place other layers of different colored clay underneath and on top of the original layer. Cut through the layers. You may or may not find a paper clip in your cut section of the original layer.


I am not at all certain that I have answered your question but, I did try to be helpfulExplain how a fossil can be presented in one rock outcrop bus missing in the same rock layer in another rock..
because fossils are very hard to preserve and animals are not consitently across a surface. You don't see people covering an entire area waiting for death. ***
a fossil indicates where an animal or plant died... if there is a fossil in one rock outcrop it's because that is the location where that animal died. You are not going to find fossils in an entire layer of rock covering a large area (unless it's a layer from an ocean, etc. where there a big accumulation of shells, fish skeletons, etc.) Also, remember that some rocks are good for fossils and some rocks are not. Fossils are usually found in sedimentary rock but you can have an area with outcrops of sedimentary and outcrops of metamorphic or igneous.





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because something died there and was fossilized but i doesn't mean that a lot of that same organism just died all over the place at the same time