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Why are fossils usually found in sedimentary rock instead of igneous or metamorphic rock?

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it is because, igneous and metamorphic form at temperatures and pressures which destroy the fossil remains. dead organisms may become sediments which may, under right conditions, become sedimentary rocks

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