How Can Plate Tectonics Help Explain the Existence of Fossil

question 69

Essay

How can plate tectonics help explain the existence of fossil marine organisms in rocks found on top of compressional mountains?

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Definitions:

Group Polarisation

The tendency for a group to make decisions that are more extreme than the initial inclination of its members.

Intergroup Attribution

Process of assigning the cause of one’s own or others’ behaviour to group membership.

Ultimate Attribution Error

A cognitive bias where people attribute the positive behaviors of their own group to stable, internal characteristics and negative behaviors of out-groups to their inherent characteristics.

Ingroup Behaviour

Actions and norms exhibited by members within their own group, often characterized by solidarity and loyalty.