How Fossils Form

Explain in simple terms how fossils form: an organism dies and is quickly buried in sediment; over millions of years minerals replace the remains and the sediment turns to rock, preserving the shape

Usually learned at ages 7–9

Builds on: Fossils & Palaeontologists, Real Dinosaurs vs Fiction (helps), How fossils form (helps)

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On the map from: Marble Skill Taxonomy (v1), © Generative Spark, Inc. (withmarble.com), text CC BY-SA 4.0, database ODbL 1.0: https://github.com/withmarbleapp/os-taxonomy