Reading...
Play button
Play button
Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
9 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
Uniformitarianism
|
The concept that processes that have shaped Earth in the past essentially the same as those operating today.
|
|
|
Relative Dating
|
The process by which rocks are placed in their proper sequence or order
|
|
|
Carbon Dating
|
to estimate the age of an object of plant or animal origin by radiocarbon dating
|
|
|
Law of Superposition
|
A law that states that in any undedormed sequence of sedimentary rock
|
|
|
Principle of Cross-Cutting Relationships
|
A Principal of relative dating; A rock or fault in younger than any rock or fault through whitch cuts.
|
|
|
Correlation
|
Establishing the equivalence of ricks similar in age difference
|
|
|
Unconformity
|
A surface that presents a break in the rock record, caused by erosion or lack of deposited.
|
|
|
Absolute dating
|
using a time scale to find out the age of an object.
|
|
|
Principle of original horizontality,
|
A principle of relative dating; Layers of sediment are generally deposited in a horizontal or nearly horizontal position.
|
