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| Any remains, impression, or trace of a living thing of a former geologic age, as a skeleton, footprint, etc. |
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| | | A rock formed from consolidated clay sediments. |
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| To convert into stone or a stony substance. |
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| A frame on which fossil is formed or made. |
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| In archaeology, the arrangement of artifacts or events in a sequence relative to one another but without ties calendrically measured time; the arrangement of artifacts in a typological sequence or seriation. |
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| The determination of the age of an object with reference to a specific time scale, such as a fixed calendar or in years before present (BP), based on measurable physical or chemical qualities or associations with written records; also called Chronometric Dating. |
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An unstable element that can be used to date fossils by using half-lifes. |
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| The time required for one half the atoms of a given amount of a radioactive substance to disintegrate. |
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| A term used by paleontologists to refer to the total number of fossils that have been discovered, as well as to the information derived from them. |
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| No longer in existence; that has ended or died out. |
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| The principle or policy of achieving some goal by gradual steps rather than by drastic change. |
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| To interrupt at intervals. |
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