(January 13, 2019 at 3:00 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote:(January 13, 2019 at 2:51 pm)T0 Th3 M4X Wrote: Fossilization is almost always a result of flooding. Fossilization is actually a rarity nowadays. If you see an animal hit by a car on, or alongside, a road it will just decompose over time. Now if a road is rapidly flooded and there was an animal there, the chances will be increased of that animal being fossilized since it can rapidly bury that animal as well as cut off oxygen from reaching the corpse. Over time that sediment it's locked away in with replicate it by exchanging molecules with it so that you have a fossil.
Citation please?
Sure. That was my explanation of it off the top of my head, so I didn't use a source for it, but here an explanation from Science Views that states pretty much the same thing. Here is a quote from it, but there are a few more paragraphs in the actual work.
"Fossils are formed in a number of different ways, but most are formed when a plant or animal dies in a watery environment and is buried in mud and silt. Soft tissues quickly decompose leaving the hard bones or shells behind. Over time sediment builds over the top and hardens into rock. As the encased bones decay, minerals seep in replacing the organic material cell by cell in a process called "petrification." Alternatively the bones may completely decay leaving a cast of the organism. The void left behind may then fill with minerals making a stone replica of the organism. "