wiki Word: Law of Cross-Cutting Relationships |
Definition: features are younger than the units they cut across
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FOR EXAMPLE: if a crater appears to be cutting through a lava flow the crater would have to be the youngest |
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| The big reason behind why we need to understand this law is because so many formations are found that we cant find the age of however this law will help us to know the age ranking compared to what is around over or under it. |
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image found at: http://rst.gsfc.nasa.gov/Sect19/2003-12-08-E1300465-medium.jpg http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/faculty/hefferan/geol320/joints8.jpg |
Orginal Author: Taylor Lane 7th Period
| Taylor L. 7th period |
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