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How are casts formed by decaying organisms?

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Organisms leave impressions in sediment that hardens into roc

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When an organism dies and is buried between layers of mud and slit. The organism decays and hardened rock leaves an impression from where the organism was. Mineral-enriched groundwater fills the mold and it all hardens and forms the cast of the fossil.

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