Question

Explain why organisms are more likely to be well preserved in mud than in sand? Justify your response in two or more

complete sentences.

Answer 1

Organisms buried in the mud are more likely to be preserved than those buried in the sand. Sand allows oxygen-bearing water to flow through. The oxygen speeds decay. Mud does not permit flow, and therefore slows decay by keeping oxygen away from buried organisms.

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Answer 2

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Step-by-step explanation:

We know, sand can't contain water because of it's nature. But mud can contain water. For preservation of an organisms, sometimes water is needed because many microbes needs water which helps to preserve the organisms. Along with this, mud has the nature of holding things for long time inside of it but sands doesn't have this.

As sand can't store water so that microbes don't do their work properly and that's why preservation get hampered.

But in mud, this problem isn't present.