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What is the result of Older layers of rock found on top of younger layers called?
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Are the layers of rock above and below the coal older or younger?
Every layer of rock, as one moves up from the core, is younger than the one below it. This means that the layers of rock above and below the coal are different ages, with the one above younger and the one below older.
When studying a stack of rock layers the layers are usually toward the bottom and the layers are usually toward the top?
Older ; Younger . 1 (; N.R.C.J
What is the method of determining whether a fossil is older or younger than other fossils found in the many layers of sedimentary rock is called what?
relative dating
What is based on the idea that younger rock layers are deposited on top of older rock layers in undisturbed areas?
The answer is: Relative dating
One of the key principles of relative dating is the law of superposition which states that?
Younger layers of sedimentary rock are deposited on older layers
How the law of superposition helps scientist determine relative age?
Younger layers are deposited on top of older layers, whether the layer is sedimentary or volcanic. Occasionally faults may result in overthrusts, where a series of older layers may be pushed over the top of younger layers. But this is rare. In general, the older layers will be the lower layers.
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. :)
Is the fault older or younger than the layers?
older because it is at the bottom and the ones on top are younger than the bottoms
What are older rocks that lie under younger rocks called?
You may be referring to an "outlier" which is an area of older rocks surrounded by younger ones due to faulting and erosion removing layers of younger rocks and forcing older ones up into them. You may also potentially be referring to a xenolith. This is a fragment of older material that has not melted that is trapped within lava or other younger igneous material.
Are the layers of rock above and below the coal older or younger?
Every layer of rock, as one moves up from the core, is younger than the one below it. This means that the layers of rock above and below the coal are different ages, with the one above younger and the one below older.
Younger layers of undisturbed sedimentary rock are above older layers according to?
the principal of sedimentarianism
What does the law of superpositioning state?
Principle stating that older rock layers are beneath younger rock layers.
What does the law superposition state?
Principle stating that older rock layers are beneath younger rock layers.
Is a layer younger or older than the layers it cuts through?
A fault is necessarily younger than faults it cuts through; it could not have happened if the layers were not there first.
Which scientific principle states that younger rock layers are generally deposited on top of older rock layers and why?
Superposition
When studying a stack of rock layers the layers are usually toward the bottom and the layers are usually toward the top?
Older ; Younger . 1 (; N.R.C.J
What is based on the idea that younger rock layers are deposited on top of older rock layers in undisturbed areas?
The answer is: Relative dating
