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earnstyle [38]
3 years ago
9

What is the reason for finding fossils of sea creatures at the tops of the Rocky Mountains?

Geography
2 answers:
slamgirl [31]3 years ago
5 0

Answer:

The presence of limestone and ocean marine fossils at the top of these mountains is one of the key pieces of evidence cited that advanced the idea of plate tectonics (large chunks of the Earth's surface moving over molten rock in the Earth's core) when it was first proposed as a theory in 1915.

Explanation:

Brainliest pls

Alborosie3 years ago
3 0

ANSWER: because the mountains were once under the sea.

Explanation: and as the mountains/ land started getting taller the sea creatures were dying and decomposing on land that's why they find fossils on mountains /land.

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