When we look to see how the Pacific Plate has moved steadily north, we’d expect to find evidence of the past equatorial line of sediment to the north. But scientists have been surprised to find something unexpected: the equator was not where we’d expect–and the only way that the equat...
Turniak, L. Krzemiński, K. Mastalerz, A. Górecka-Nowak, L. Kurowski, P. Krzywiec, A. Zelaźniewicz, M.C. Fanning Uplift and late orogenic deformation of the Central European Variscan belt as revealed by sediment provenance and structural record in the Carboniferous foreland basin of ...
Each of them typically exists in igneous rock, or rock made from cooled magma. Fossils, however, form in sedimentary rock -- sediment quickly covers a dinosaur's body, and the sediment and the bones gradually turn into rock. But this sediment doesn't typically include the necessary isotopes ...