The types of fossils and the ways of formation
The fossils are the traces and the remains of the living organisms which are preserved in the sedimentary rocks, The traces of once old living organisms indicate its activity during its life and the remains are the traces that indicate the remains of once old living organisms after the death.
The types of the fossils and the ways of the formation
The fossils are classified according to the way of the formation into several types which are the fossil of the complete body, The cast, the mold, and the petrified fossils.
The fossil of the complete body
It keeps the whole shape and all the details, It is a type of the fossils which was formed as a result of the rapid burying of the organism as soon as it died in a medium that preserves it from the decomposition as the snow and the amber.
The amber is the solidified resinous matter which was secreted by the pine trees in the old geologic ages, The mammoth was extinct by the snow avalanche occurred in Siberia 25000 years ago, The mammoth fossil and the amber fossils are examples of the complete body fossil.
The cast types
There are the hollow cast and the solid cast. The hollow cast as the face mask that has the same external details of the face. The solid cast as the pieces of the ice which have the same internal details of the ice cast.
The solid cast is the replica of the internal details of a skeleton of once an old living organism, The ammonites fossil, the nummulites fossil and the trilobite fossil are from the examples of the solid cast fossils.
The mold is the replica of the external details of a skeleton of once an old living organisms leaving them in the sedimentary rocks after the death, The mold of ferns, and the fish mold are from the examples of the mold fossils.
The petrified fossils
The petrified fossils are the fossils in which the minerals replace the organic matter for the organism part by part to leave the shape without any change, The dinosaur’s tooth, the dinosaur’s eggs and the petrified wood are from the examples of the petrified fossils.
The petrified woods are the fossils which are formed as a result of replacing the organic matter of the wood by the silica part, and they give us the details about the life of once an old plant.
The petrification is the process of replacing the wood material of the trees by silica to form the petrified woods part by part.