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| Remains or evidence of any creature or plant that once lived on earth |
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| When living organisms die they are usually eaten or what? |
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| An organism is most likely to become a fossil if it has a what? |
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| An organism dies on the sea floor it is immediately covered by what? |
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| When a body decomposes which part becomes a fossil? |
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| Fossils are exposed to the surface when the sediments hardened into Rock are uplifted and what? |
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| This is when you compare a fossil with the other fossils or rock around it to determine its age? |
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| In a sedimentary sequence the older beds are located where? |
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| In a sedimentary sequence the younger beds are on the |
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| What gives us the actual date of a fossil |
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| Geologic process that occurs today and are similar to a process that occurred in the past |
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| An I disturbed rock layers the oldest rock at the bottom |
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| These layers can be disturbed after formed but their original deposit gives them their name |
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| Sediments are deposited in lateral direction until the material runs out or meets a barrier |
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| A piece of older rock becomes part of a new rock |
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| Cross cutting relationships |
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| Faults and dukes cut across existing rocks |
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| When rocks move along a fracture line |
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