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jjjetplane

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Which statement is not true about the principle of faunal succession?
 
  A) Fossils that appear at different places and over different eras are of different species.
  B) Fossils of different organisms first appear at different times.
  C) Fossils of related organisms change in the same fashion in progressively younger rocks every place they occur.
  D) Fossil species disappear from the rock record everywhere when they become extinct and do not reappear in younger rocks.

Question 2

What evidence would lead geologists to conclude that granite underlying sedimentary rock is younger than the sedimentary rock?
 
  A) fragments of sedimentary rock included in the granite
  B) pebbles of the granite included in the bedding of the sedimentary rock
  C) tilting of the sedimentary bedding
  D) contact metamorphism between the granite and the deepest sedimentary bedding



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Answer to Question 1

Answer: A

Answer to Question 2

Answer: D



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