index fossil


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Pronunciation: / ˈɪndɛks ˈfɒs(ə)l;ˈfɒsɪl /

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index fossil index fossils
  1. a fossil known to have lived in a particular geologic age that can be used to date the rock layer in which it is found
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1901-1954 in the United States after 1939 italian nuclear physicist who worked on artificial radioactivity caused by neutron bombardment and who headed the group that in 1942 produced the first controlled nuclear reaction