To: fishtank
No tissue decay?
The fossil in this case HAS NO TISSUE, it has all decayed. What is left over is mineral deposits that have replaced the organic decaying tissue matter - in a process called fossilization.
9 posted on
02/01/2011 12:17:48 PM PST by
allmendream
(Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
To: allmendream
Still, you have to agree that out of the trillions upon trillions of creatures who have ever lived it is amazing that a few tens of thousand fossils have been found...
13 posted on
02/01/2011 12:23:47 PM PST by
null and void
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