Across
- 2. is the process of determining an age on a specified chronology in archaeology and geology
- 3. the process by which organic matter exposed to minerals over a long period is turned into a stony substance
- 5. relating to or denoting the most recent era, following the Mesozoic era and comprising the Tertiary and Quaternary periods.
- 8. is a process of fossilization in which mineral deposits form internal casts of organisms
- 11. the conversion of organic matters like plants and dead animal remains into carbon through destructive distillation.
- 12. a fossil that is useful for dating and correlating the strata in which it is found.
- 13. preserved from being trapped in ice or tar; getting most or all of the body of the organism.
- 14. relating to or denoting the era between the Precambrian eon and the Mesozoic era.
- 15. a fossil of a footprint, trail, burrow, or other traces of an animal rather than of the animal itself.
Down
- 1. is an axiom that forms one of the bases of the sciences of geology, archaeology, and other fields pertaining to geological stratigraphy
- 4. the action or process of replacing someone or something
- 6. of a species, family, or other groups of animals or plants having no living members; no longer in existence.
- 7. any of various hard natural resins usually found in the earth as exudates of trees long dead
- 9. is the science of determining the relative order of past events, without necessarily determining their absolute age.
- 10. relating to or denoting the era between the Paleozoic and Cenozoic eras, comprising the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods.