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A fossil of an ocean fish was found in a rock outcrop on a mountain. This probably means that?

A fossil of an ocean fish was found in a rock outcrop on a mountain. This probably means that?
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A fossil of an ocean fish was found in a rock outcrop on a mountain. This probably means that?

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It means that at one point the mountain was below sea level.
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It most likley means there used to be an ocean as high as the mountain. Over the years the ocean has evaporated, the fish had died and as a result it left a fossil over the million years.
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