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Are fossils well preserved on the deep ocean floor or in extraordinary deep locations like trenches? What about under the sea floor? I suppose there must be bo
by mmooss 2y ago
Are fossils well preserved on the deep ocean floor or in extraordinary deep locations like trenches? What about under the sea floor?
I suppose there must be bone-eating organisms on the floor, given the number of dead bony animals that must lie there. But there is also a lot of pressure and I don't know how seawater affects fossilization.
I'm really wondering: if we could get easier access to the deep ocean floor, would it impact archaeology in a big way?
> when they lived from 215 million to 66 million years ago.
I hadn't thought about it, but what happened to organisms living underwater during the K-T extinction event (which was 66 million years ago).