Nicolaus Steno Argued in His Preliminary Discourse to a Dissertation

question 52

Multiple Choice

Nicolaus Steno argued in his Preliminary Discourse to a Dissertation on a Solid Body Naturally Contained within a Solid (1669) that fossils came to be laid down inside solid rock because the fossils:

• A) had grown inside the rock, a common opinion of the time.
• B) were older; the rock was originally laid down as a liquid, solidifying around the fossils.
• C) were younger; they became trapped inside the rock after the rock had already solidified from its liquid state.
• D) and the rock were the same age, both forming together at the same time.

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