A geologist is studying rock layers in an old river bed, and he finds a fossil of a fish and a horsetail rush in the same rock layer. According to the law of faunal and floral succession, the geologist can assume that the rock containing the fossils may date back as far as the <span>Devonian period</span>.
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I think it is difficult to determine what has caused climate change in the distant past because it must have been a long time ago so geologists can't carry out different experiments and figure out what gases the planet had conjured, so geologists can only make predictions based off the evidence they currently have from what the planet looked like before. The planet must have changed over the years, therefore the climate has also changed in the future, so they cannot work with how the planet looked in the past.
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Yes , it is possible for two different atoms of carbon to have different numbers of neutrons in their nuclei .
Explanation:
Isotopes -
Atoms of the element with same number of the electrons and protons , but differ in the number of neutrons , are called as the isotopes .
The isotopes of the element have the same number of protons and electrons , hence have the same chemical and physical properties .
Many isotopes occurs naturally .
In case of Carbon ,
Carbon too have isotopes ,
i.e.
Carbon - 13 and Carbon - 14
carbon - 13 , have seven neutrons
Carbon - 14 , have eight neutrons .