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What can explain the presence of a rock layer with no fossils between rock layers with different types of fossils?

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The environments in which one rock layer forms and an adjacent later layer forms may be very different from one another. Climates change, sea level rise causes inundation of formerly dry ground, and areas that were once were wet and warm later become dry, or freezing cold, or blazing hot.

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