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Middle and recent earth history
Middle and recent earth history













middle and recent earth history

This set of Fundamental Geologic Principles, still in use today, is the basis for the construction of the relative geologic time scale. Geologists deduced the various principles used to determine relative dating hundreds of years ago. Relative dating does not tell when a particular event occurred or how long it lasted-relative dating simply puts events in order of occurrence with respect to one another.

middle and recent earth history

Geologists determine the sequence of events from their position in the rock record with older events/rocks usually occurring in the lowest layers and later events higher in the rock sequence. For a layer of rock to be considered a formation, it must spread across a relatively large area that can be depicted on a geologic map. Rock formations can record these events: an ocean will result in marine limestone, a volcanic eruption in basaltic lava or a layer of ash, and a sand dune in sandstone. Relative age dating involves placing geologic events such as an ocean’s existence, a volcanic eruption, or the duration of a dune field in a sequential order.















Middle and recent earth history