How are volcanoes and fossils related?

Question

any web sources would be great also...

Answer 1

On the face of it, not at all.
Fossils are only found in sedimentary rocks, or metamorphic rocks that were once sedimentary.
Let's get the terminology straight here - by volcano I assume you mean a feature at the Earth's surface from which magma issues?
Any fossil in any rock that was subsequently melted would be completely obliterated, and any creature caught in lava from an eruption would also be completely obliterated. It is possible (and not rare...) for ash to bury organisms without burning them. The hole left by the corpses after decomposition may be filled by minerals and would become a fossil. There are numerous examples of this, which I suppose you could find if you typed 'volcanic ash fossils' into a search engine.

Answer 2

Indirectly very closely related.

To create a fossil you need to bury the animal very quickly - otherwise it gest eaten or rots. There are even fossils are animals giving birth and in the middle of eating other animals.

So the fact that the earth is covered in sedimentary rock, laid down by water, containing billions of dead creatures is testament to a watery catastrophe.

In fact it is exactly what one would expect to see given the account fo the Global flood in the Bible.

The water came from rain and from 'the fountains of the deep', namely subterranean water. Almost certainly the flood event involved massive volcanic activity. Some people are not aware that most of what comes out of a volcano is water, even today.

So in a nutshell, the fossils are indirectly due to massive volcanic activity.

Of course many people disagree with the above interpretation, but they cannot refute it on scientific grounds. They reject it on religious grounds - believe anything except that the Bible might be true :-)

Answer 3

attakkdog is correct. Even though he seems unable to spell "attack". somewhat recent examples of such fossilization are the remains of the citizens of Pompeii whose forms got preserved in volcanic ash in 79 AD. Immortality of a sort. Not one they would have wanted though.