Diogenesis - The Transformation of Fossils

When we dig up disor bones, they're not just bones that were ground. They're altered. And very briefly, before we talk about the changes that happen to the fossilizing things, i want to talk a bit about sediment. Fossils are buried, typically, o typically in sediment, sand, silt, clay, ash,. Some kind of loose, unconsolidated stuff that can bury the fossil. Usually it has to be grainy stuff. Yet sediment is where we get most of our famous rocks from. Sandstone used to be sand and mudstone used to been mud, and silt stone used to be silt. As water flows through compacted sediment, it

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