relative dating

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what is relative dating

Answer 1

Is a process that lets us look at geological events or fossils and put them in order from youngest to oldest, determining the age of a rock or event in relation to other rocks or events.

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what is the law of superposition

Answer 2

Is a law that states that is a sequence of undisturbed rocks, the oldest layer is on the bottom and the youngest is on the top

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Law of Original Horizontality

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Is the law that states that sediment layers are deposited horizontally

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Index Fossils

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; fossils that help us date the age and order of rocks

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Law of Cross-Cutting Relationships

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intrusions and extrusions are always younger than the rocks they cut through

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Uniformitarianism

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;s a rule that states that what happened before is still happening today and vice versa .

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Fault

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a fracture or zone of fractures between two blocks of rock