Things I learned by Jaylen McRae by Jaylen McRae

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jaymcr5176 — 2023-11-15 22:47:46 UTC

Absolute age is is the numeric age of a layer of rocks or fossils. Absolute age can be determined by using radiometric dating.

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jaymcr5176 — 2023-11-15 22:48:43 UTC

Relative age is the age of a rock layer (or the fossils it contains) compared to other layers. It can be determined by looking at the position of rock layers.

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jaymcr5176 — 2023-11-15 22:54:21 UTC

Uniformitarianism is the theory that changes in the earth's crust during geological history have resulted from the action of continuous and uniform processes.

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jaymcr5176 — 2023-11-15 22:56:37 UTC

Intrusion is magma forcing is way into cracks and solidify into igneous rock.

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jaymcr5176 — 2023-11-15 22:58:15 UTC

Extrusion is when the process of forming something by forcing or pushing it out, especially through a small opening

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jaymcr5176 — 2023-11-15 22:59:07 UTC

That rocks layer from youngest to oldest.

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jaymcr5176 — 2023-11-15 23:00:20 UTC

Index fossil is when any animal or plant preserved in the rock record of the Earth that is characteristic of a particular span of geologic time or environment.

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jaymcr5176 — 2023-11-15 23:14:52 UTC

superposition one of the principles of geology scientists use to determine the relative ages of rock strata, or layers.