NOTES – STRATIGRAPHY and THE LAW OF SUPERPOSITION

NOTES – STRATIGRAPHY and THE LAW OF SUPERPOSITION
What is Stratigraphy?
What is relative dating?
Law of Horizontality
Law of Superposition
Draw a Picture of 4 Horizontal layers of rock and describe the relative age of each rock layer.
Draw and describe a syncline/anticline
Unconformities – What are they?
Types of Cross-Cutting Relationships
Intrusions and Relative Dating
Extrusions and Relative Dating
Clues from Faults
How do fossils form?
What are index fossils?
NOTES – STRATIGRAPHY and THE LAW OF SUPERPOSITION