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Name: Takeara M.
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Date: February 9, 2004
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How can you identify the relative ages of rock layers by their positions


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In a sequence of layers that have not been folded, overturned or otherwise disturbed, the older layers are on the bottom. This must be so because they had to be there for the younger layers to be put on top.

Pat Rowe


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