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What is the principle of cross-cutting relationships? What will be an ideal response?

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What is the principle of lateral continuity? What will be an ideal response?



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Answer to Question 1

An igneous intrusion or fault must be younger than the rocks it intrudes or displaces.

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Sediment extends laterally in all directions until it thins and pinches out or terminates against the edge
of the depositional basin.




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