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What are fossils ? How do we determine the age of a fossil ?

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  • Fossils are impressions of plants or animals embedded in rock and preserved. They may be in the form of a body or trace.
  • The age of the fossils is determined by the Radioactive carbon dating technique in which the half-life of carbon and found radioactive elements is determined to calculate the age of a fossil.

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