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Why are ocean fossils found on top of the rocky mountains?
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Why are ocean fossils found on top of the rocky mountains?

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A lot of mountains are marine rock that's been shoved up due to tectonic movement. Former bits of sea bed have been thrust thousands of metres high, and taken their fossils with them. What you think is right enough.
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