scientists have found large groups of fossils of marine organisms on mountaintops. what does this tell scientists about the past? that these rocks were once below the surface of an ocean. that these rocks must have been moved there by some one else. that these rocks were always above the surface of an ocean. that these organisms left the ocean and climbed to the top of an inland mountain to die.

Between 15 and 20 million years ago, when these animals perished, their corpses fell to the ocean floor and became enmeshed in the sediments of the deep. But ever since, the Andean chain's violent upthrusting has thrust the sediments to the summits of mountains.

Why do mountains contain fossils?

The fossils are thought to have been transported from the water to the hills by tectonic plate movements or earthquakes. These occurrences are not unfamiliar in California, where the complicated fault lines "guarantee the earth is perpetually shifting [so] ancient rock is always being driven to the surface."

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