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Make your own fossils in 10 years!

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11-12-2004 11:27 AM 		Reply to: Message 4 by techristian
11-12-2004 11:20 AM

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Yes, but I have also proved that it doesn't need to take "millions of years"
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It does take millions of years for argon to build from the decay of potassium in the igneous rocks above these fossils. The age of the fossil is given by the dating of surrounding rock and the other fossil species found in the same layer of sediment. The age of a fossil is never measured by the extent of permineralization or the "rate" of fossilization.
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