OCR Geology Unit 5 Evolution of Life, Earth and Cl Meet Hindu singles from United States
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Geologists obtain a wide range of information from fossils. Although the recognition of fossils goes back hundreds of years, the systematic cataloguing and assignment of relative ages to different organisms from the distant past—paleontology—only dates back to the earliest part of the 19th century. However, as anyone who has gone hunting for fossils knows, this does not mean that all sedimentary rocks have visible fossils or that they are easy to find. Fossils alone cannot provide us with numerical ages of rocks, but over the past century geologists have acquired enough isotopic dates from rocks associated with fossiliferous rocks such as igneous dykes cutting through sedimentary layers to be able to put specific time limits on most fossils. A selective history of life on Earth over the past million years is provided in Figure Insects, which evolved from marine arthropods, invaded land during the Devonian Ma , and amphibians i.