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What characteristic is the most desirable for constraining the relative age of rocks?
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How are the laws of superposition and crosscutting relationship used to determine the relative age of rocks?
They are used to determine the relative ages of rocks by stating that younger rocks lie above older rocks, and that rocks that cut through a layer are younger than the existing layer.
What relative cooling rates of igneous intrusive rocks can be estimated by comparing rocks?
Crystal
Which is a characteristic of all nonfoliated metamorphic rocks?
Lack of banding
Which characteristic helps identify nonfoliated metamorphic rocks?
crytal structure
What can you infer about the age of rocks as compared to humans?
relative age
Determining the order of events and the relative age of rocks by examining the position of rocks in a sequence is called?
relative dating.Relative dating is used to determine the relative age of rocks.
Which characteristic of rocks tends to increase as the rocks are metamorphosed?
Density
What major group does foliated rocks belong?
Foliation is a characteristic of some metamorphic rocks.
Kind of age that compares a rock with other rocks?
relative age
Which characteristic is most common in sedimentary rocks?
rocky
How are the laws of superposition and crosscutting relationship used to determine the relative age of rocks?
They are used to determine the relative ages of rocks by stating that younger rocks lie above older rocks, and that rocks that cut through a layer are younger than the existing layer.
What properties do all rocks have?
Rocks have color, grain, specific density, and relative hardness.
Relative cooling rates of igneous intrusive rocks can be estimated by comparing rocks?
density
What relative cooling rates of igneous intrusive rocks can be estimated by comparing rocks?
Crystal
The age of a rock compared with the age of other rocks?
What you are referring to is the relative age.
Which is a characteristic of all nonfoliated metamorphic rocks?
Lack of banding
Large scale folding of rocks during the process of mountain building is characteristic of?
Large scale folding of rocks during the process of mountain building is characteristic of regional metamorphic rock
