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Q: The law of thermodynamics says that the oldest layer of sediments will be found beneath younger layers of sediment?
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The Law of Thermodynamics says that the oldest layer of sediment will be found beneath younger layers of sediments.?

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Is it true that the Law of Thermodynamics says that the oldest layer of sediment will be found beneath younger layers of sediments?

FALSE


Do Ocean sediments become younger or older away from midocean ridges?

Older, as it moves away from the mid-ocean ridge the sediment gets thicker and older


When geologists or archaeologists dig downward into a unit of rock or sediment they are digging back in time that is is based on the principle of?

The law of superposition which states that younger rocks or sediments are deposited or formed on top of older ones.


What is the difference between old alluvium and new alluvium?

Alluvium refers to clay, silt, sand, gravel, or similar detrital material deposited by running water. New alluvium are these sediments that are being deposited right now and older alluvium refers to sediments that were deposited a short while before the new alluvium. For example, a 500 years ago some sediments were deposited in a stream bed and last year more sediments were deposited in that same stream bed. The 500 year old sediment would be older alluvium and the 1 year old sediment would be the younger alluvium.


What is the theory that states younger sediment is deposited over old sediment?

Theory of Super Position.


What does the sediment the is closer to mid ocean ridge compare to sediment that is farther away?

The closer the sediment is to the mid-ocean ridge, the younger it is. The oldest bedrock is found the farthest away from it.


How does superposition work?

the theory that layer of sediments are geologically younger than the layers found below it


What does the The Law of Superposition state?

Principle stating that older rock layers are beneath younger rock layers.


What processes might put younger rock beneath older rock?

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Intrusions of the igneous rock are younger or older than the rock layers beneath and surrounding them?

they are younger and extrusions are older. they are younger because the surrounding rock layers had to have been there first in order for it to appear. :)


What is the relative age of a fault that cuts across three horizontal sedimentary rock layers?

Younger than all three sediments.