Homework Questions for Lecture 8 - RELATIVE DATING A. Short answer: 1. The princ

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Homework Questions for Lecture 8 - RELATIVE DATING A. Short answer: 1. The principles of relative dating were publishecd in 1669 by Nicolaus the deposits 2. Tilted outcrops of of sediment avalanches that fall off of the continental slope, can be oriented right-side-up using observations of their sedimentary structures called graded bedding 3. Preparing descriptive diagrams of isolated rock outcrops and their fossils is called measuring section. These are useful in determining equivalence in age of sediments, a process called 4. A fault that cuts across sediments is than the sediments. 5. Whenever we see folded sediments, we know that the sediments were deposited before the folding occurred. 6. Paradoxides is a Cambrian trilobite which lived for a relatively short amount of time but was widespread and abundant. It is a good example of an correlation fossil, one which is useful in 7. Whenever we see Mesozoic dinosaur skeletons in sediments underneath sediments containing Paleozoic trilobites, we know that these beds are

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1) By Nicholas Steno

The principles of relative dating were published in 1669 by nicolaus Steno.

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