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Fossils!
Fossils!
What are fossils?
Fossils are the preserved remains of a living thing that died.
Different types of fossils!
There are 6 main types of fossils!! Mold Fossils Cast Fossils True Form Fossils Carbon Films Trace Fossils Body Fossils
Mold Fossils
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• The imprint or impression of a living thing
• Form after hard parts have been buried and then dissolved by water
Cast Fossils
Form when a mold is filled in with a mineral
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Carbon Films
Look like images or pictures!Created when every part of an organism
decays or dissolves except the carbon.
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Trace Fossils
Formed when an organism leaves an imprint and that imprint is filled with minerals or another substance like volcanic ash.
Teeth marks, prints, nests, and more!
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True Form Fossils
A fossil of the entire body of an organism
Formed when the organism’s tissues or hard parts did not decay
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Body Fossils
Usually teeth and bones turned to stone
Minerals harden the bones or sometimes replace the actual bone itself and just make it a stone
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Fossilization?
SedimentLayers
(minerals)Movement Erosion
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Unaltered Preservation
Amber, tar, ice True form fossils!
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Permineralization/ Petrification
Minerals seep in and replace the original tissues
Creates a rock-like fossilMost dinosaur fossils are made from
this! Body fossils!
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Carbonization
The carbon inside the thing that died stays Carbon films!
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Authigenic preservation
Molds or casts!
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Fossil Record
By looking at a fossil we can learn so much about the earth!!
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What type of animal…
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How it died…
References Slide 4 Seashell Photo: http://
edt907finalproject.wikispaces.com/file/view/MoldFossil2.jpg Slide 5 Cast fossil photo:
http://ykonline.yksd.com/distanceedcourses/Courses/EarthScience/lessons/FourthQuarter/Chapter14/14-01/images/CastFossil.jpg
Slide 6 Carbon Film: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sn-UGDNBR-A/TaTsRVnIZcI/AAAAAAAAAA4/otG4Hwi38kc/s1600/flower-fossil-_39205_1.jpg
Slide 7 Trace fossil photo: http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/naturelibrary/images/ic/credit/640x395/t/tr/trace_fossil/trace_fossil_1.jpg
Slide 8 True Form fossil photo: http://c3e308.medialib.glogster.com/media/07/07078d911294897c02878c4095bdc255373b0490981e69bc3a0e8b25e7785287/true-form-fossil-jpg.jpg
Slide 9 Body fossil photo: http://o.quizlet.com/2kr7rH-IxJgQ7Sufx88ByQ_m.jpg
Slide 10 Fossilization: http://jpostema.napsk12.org/blob/full/150186.gif
References Continued Slide 11 Unaltered Preservation:
http://s.ngm.com/2009/05/mammoths/img/mammoth-615.jpg Slide 12 Permineralization/Petrification:
http://7e1d29f58-520e3d5f63d797cdd946c1b94598863d.r33.cf1.rackcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/20130123-210429.jpg
Slide 13 Carbonization: http://www.newark.osu.edu/facultystaff/personal/jstjohn/Documents/Cool-fossils/Carbonization_files/image002.jpg
Slide 14 Authigenic Preservation: http://petrifiedwoodmuseum.org/Images/CastMold560.jpeg
Slide 15 Fossil record: http://www.globalchange.umich.edu/fossil1.jpg Slide 16 animal type:
http://harunyahya.com/image/Atlas_of_creation_v4/70_71_turtle_fossil.jpg
Slide 17 mammoth photo: http://kgov.com/files/images/science/frozen-mammoth-w-girl.jpg
