Palaeontology
Sibelle MAKSOUD
© Dany Azar
Introduction
•Fossils
- very common in certain kind of rocks
-beautiful objects
- found high in the mountains?
How are fossils formed??
Sedimentary layers (strata) in which the fossil is
trapped are formed in an aquatic environment
(basin, lagoon, lake…)
Introduction
How a perfectly preserved fish lay within rocks?
Cenomanian – Nammoura, Lebanon
Introduction
Palaeontology: the science that studies the fossils, their formation,
their succession over geological ages, and the information they can
give on historical biodiversity, evolution, paleoclimates and
paleoenvironments.
Daohugou Museum, China
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