[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anyone know about the mechanisms of fossilization in a marine
environment? Does fossilization occur as part of a continuous accumulation of
organisms and calcium deposits, or is it periodid and erratic?
Briefly: Fossilization occurs best in environments that allow slow/ no
decomposition of tissue, bone, shell, etc. By their very nature, many marine
environments are such places; most well-preserved fossils that we see today are
of marine organisms. Accumulation depends on the events or environments which
the fossils were formed. Think of a huge mudslide versus the slow-to-accumulate
ocean bottom, and an area of high versus low abundance of creatures living
there. All totally different scenarios.
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