[BrandtMichaels]

Surely you don’t mean that?

“To cook a fossil, it would have to be buried something like a kilometer deep, where no paleontologist would ever find it.”

[Driabrin]

>> To cook a fossil, it would have to be buried something like a kilometer deep
> Surely you don’t mean that?

Ground temperature increases with depth as you get closer to the mantle. Only a few kilometers deep the ambient temperature can boil water.

[BrandtMichaels]

And yet they find them deeper than 1 or several kilometers!

[BrandtMichaels]

And yet they find them deeper than 1 or several kilometers!