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Pentz introduces the idea that the present is the key to the past. To support this view he poses some questions about fossils. By studying the modern environment we have clues as to how fossil sedi...ments were formed. Wilson emphasises the view that the present is the key to the past by showing that the rocks are only a static record of a period in geological time.
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Module code and title: S100, Science foundation course
Item code: S100; 26
Recording date: 1971-07-25
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Duration: 00:24:48
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Producer: Penny Crompton
Contributors: Michael Pentz; Chris Wilson
Publisher: Open University
Subject terms: Fossils; Paleontology; Sedimentary rocks; Geology
Production number: JOUZ382E
Videofinder number: 2855
Available to public: no