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Absolutely. Also consider that a vast portion of the Earth's crust has been recycled into the mantle over the millenia.
by 01100011 5y ago
Absolutely. Also consider that a vast portion of the Earth's crust has been recycled into the mantle over the millenia.
- zetalyrae 5y agoMaybe with enough technology we can drill into one of the sunken tectonic plates[0] and find fossils there. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farallon_Plate#Farallon_Plate_subduction_forms_North_American_Cordillera https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farallon_Plate#Farallon_Plate_...
- bradrn 5y agoWell, you can’t get fossils from rocks which have melted or metamorphised. If you try you might get lucky and find some relatively unscathed sediments, but I don’t know enough geology to say for sure how much of the plate would have escaped metamorphism.