Chapter 10 Lesson 2 Relative Age Dating

The process for matching rocks and fossils from separate locations

• correlation
• causation
• inclusion
• lateral

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A piece of an older rock that becomes part of a new rock

• inclusion
• exclusion
• lateral
• correlation

A species that existed on Earth for a short length of time, was abundant, and inhabited many locations.

• index fossil
• relative age
• superposition
• unconformity

This refers to a side or a sideways direction.

• lateral
• forward
• inclusion
• correlation

The age of rocks and geologic features with respect to other rocks and features nearby.

• relative age
• superposition
• lateral
• correlation

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Young sedimentary layers that form on top of older, tilted or folded sedimentary layers that have eroded create a(n) _________.

• nonconformity

• angular unconformity

• non-conformity

• disconformity

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A(n) _______ is the surface between older, eroded rock and the younger rock on top of it.

• unconformity
• angular unconformity

• disconformity

• nonconformity

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Which principle could be used to date a stack of horizontal rock layers?

• superposition
• cross-cutting relationships
• lateral continuity

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The principle of ______ states that sediments are deposited in large, continuous sheets in all lateral directions.

• lateral continuity
• original horizontality
• correlation

What is true of any fault?

• It is younger than the rocks it cuts
• It is older than the rocks it cuts
• It is the same age as the rocks it cuts.

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