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Bilingual glossary of geology


Index Fossil  Fossile caractéristique
The fossil remains of an organism that lived in a particular geologic age, used to identify or date the rock or sediment in which it is found.

Themes:
  Dating methods and geological time scale

Related words:
  Fossil
  Relative Dating
  Faunal Succession (Principle of)