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Key Principles

Key Principles. This is an easily recognizable fossil that lived for a short period over a wide area. (Correlation, Key Bed, Index Fossil, Relative Dating). Index Fossil. A rock layer with the same characteristics of an index fossil. (Correlation, Key Bed, Index Fossil, Relative Dating).

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Key Principles

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  1. Key Principles

  2. This is an easily recognizable fossil that lived for a short period over a wide area. (Correlation, Key Bed, Index Fossil, Relative Dating)

  3. Index Fossil

  4. A rock layer with the same characteristics of an index fossil. (Correlation, Key Bed, Index Fossil, Relative Dating)

  5. Key bed

  6. Matching of rock layers from one area to another. (Correlation, Key Bed, Index Fossil, Relative Dating)

  7. Correlation

  8. A system by which the major events of Earth’s history are arranged in the order in which they occurred. (Geologic Timetable, Geologic Era, Correlation, Absolute Dating)

  9. Geologic Timetable

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