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2. What do borings show?

  • Evidence of alternating layers of hard and soft substrate
  • Evidence of a marine environment
  • Evidence of a hard substrate
  • Evidence of a soft substrate

3. What conditions do burrows form in?

  • Soft terrestrial soils
  • Soft sand or mud
  • Hard rock, for example, sandstone

4. What conditions are root structures found in?

  • Deep marine or deltaic conditions
  • Shallow marine, deltaic or terrestrial conditions
  • Terrestrial conditions with an acidic soil
  • Deep marine or terrestrial conditions with acidic soil

5. What is Bioturbation?

  • Burrowing or working the sediment in a way that disrupts the sediment, created by living organisms
  • The impression of a dis-articulated animal
  • Burrowing or working the sediment in a way that disrupts the sediment, created by fossils in eddy currents
  • The impression of a whole animal

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