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what are fossils? list 5 ways by which we can estimate the age of fossils

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Fossils are the dead remains of plants, animals and other organisms from the remote past.
There are different methods of estimation of age of the fossils-
1. Stratigraphy.
2. Lagerstatten.
3. Stromatolites.
4. Carbon dating.
5. Radiometric dating.

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