LESSON 6: HISTORY OF THE EARTH

FOR REVIEW

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A comparative method of determining the age of rocks

Describes the patterns in which rock layers are deposited

• Law of Stratigraphy

• Law of Superposition

• Law of Original Horizontality

• Law of Cross-Cutting Relationships

Relative Dating DOES generate a numerical age of a given rock layer

• TRUE

• FALSE

Developed by Nicolaus Steno

• Law of Original Horizontality

• Law of Superposition

• Law of Cross-Cutting Relationships

• Law of Included Fragments

States that younger rock layers are atop of the old layers

• Law of Superposition

• Law of Faunal Succession

• Law of Original Horizontality

• Law of Included Fragments

States that layers of sedimentary rock are originally deposited in horizontal layers. However, endogenic processes can alter the original layer

• Law of Included Fragments

• Law of Faunal Succession

• Law of Cross-Cutting Relationships

• Law of Original Horizontality

States that the cross-cutting rock is younger than the layer(s) it cross-cuts

States that the included rock fragment is older than the including rock fragment

• Law of Included Fragments

• Law of Faunal Succession

• Law of Including Fragment

• Law of Fragment

Law of Faunal Succession was developed by?

• William Smith

• Nicolaus Steno

• Isaac Newton

• Bruno Mars