1. How can scientists use fossils in rock layers as evidence that one event happened earlier than another event?

Fossils in rock, in general, provide information about the creatures and plants that lived in the past.

The reason for this is that as those organisms die, they disintegrate and generate silts, which over millions of years go deep into the lithosphere.

As a result, scientists may use the radiocarbon dating technique to determine the age of the fossils. Another method is employed to determine the sort of organism that once existed.

As a result, scientists can infer proof that an event occurred on Earth as long as a million years ago through the application of these approaches.