a) very few organisms were preserved as fossils
b) organisms tend to decay before becoming a fossil
c) animals with hard parts are preserved more easily
d) geological processes may destroy fossils
e) all of these
2007-07-12 08:36:25 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
All of these, plus....digging for fossils is really a crap shoot.
You normally have to dig, and perhaps deeply, for fossils. Has the ground that you are on right now been dug up? Just trying to figure out where to dig is the single biggest obstacle.
And, most of the earth is covered by water, over 70%, that means we might not have access to 70% of possible fossil contained in the ground.
2007-07-12 09:14:49 · answer #1 · answered by Lee H 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
e) All of these.
If you're a Young Earth Creationist, then Satan and the Fallen Angels made the fossil record incomplete to tempt us to not believe in Biblical Creationism.
2007-07-12 15:50:20 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Every last one of those.
2007-07-12 15:41:46 · answer #3 · answered by Lady Geologist 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋