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Relative Age - Environmental Geology - Lecture Slides, Slides of Earth Sciences

In these Lecture Slides, the Lecturer covered the following basic concepts of Environmental Geology : Relative Age, Cross-Cutting Relationships, Agricola, Lyell, Truncated Units, Original Horizontality, Nicolas Steno, Progressively Younger, Lateral Continuity, Steno

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2012/2013

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Principles Used to Determine
Relative Age
Cross-cutting Relationships-
Agricola/Lyell
Truncated units (dikes and faults)
Original Horizontality- Nicolas Steno
Progressively younger from bottom => top
Lateral Continuity-Steno
Superposition-Steno
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Principles Used to DetermineRelative Age 

Cross-cutting Relationships-

Agricola/Lyell

 Truncated units (dikes and faults)

Original Horizontality- Nicolas Steno 

Progressively younger from bottom => top

Lateral Continuity-Steno

Superposition-Steno

Principles Used to DetermineRelative Age

Other Time Relationships  Contact Metamorphism  Inclusions