Science Flashcards
1
Q
Beds or layers of sedimentary rock having approximately the same composition throughout
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Rock strata
2
Q
Scientific law that states fossils located in deeper sediment layers are older than ones deposited in layers closer to the surface
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Law of superposition
3
Q
The mineralized remains of organisms and the rock layers in which they are found, showing when and where long dead organisms lived and how their bodies were structured.
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Fossil Records
4
Q
System of chronological measurement that relates stratigraphy (study of rock layers) to time
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Geological time scale
