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How are the layers of rock (strata) helpful in determining the age of the fossils found in them?

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The rock layers help by preserving the fossils and it also keeps a record of how they died, where they lived, what they ate, and a million other factors. Most rock layers are trillions of years old and it shows us what was alive and how they lived and what the earth was like back then.

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