Stratigraphy
Who is considered "The Father of Stratigraphy"?
Who is William Smith?
What do absolute dating methods determine?
What is how much time has passed since rocks formed?
What do igneous rocks come from?
What is magma?
What is the opposite of relative data?
What is absolute data?
What does stratigraphy focus on?
What is sedimentary rock strata?
How is absolute dating different from relative dating?
What is relative dating only puts geological events in time order?
What is an example of an intrusive rock?
What is diorite, gabbro, granite, pegmatite, and peridotite? (any one of these apply)
What does relative data not give?
What are actual numeric dates?
What is stratigraphy?
What is the branch of geology concerned with the order and relative position of strata?
What is the formula for the absolute age of a layer?
What is A=(R+N)D? ("A" being time elapsed since the formation of the most recent layer "R" plus the number of layers "N" lying above the layer in question multiplied by the duration "D" of the depositional cycle)
What is one of the cooled rocks on the surface of the Earth?
What is andesite, basalt, dacite, obsidian, pumice, rhyolite, scoria, and tuff? (any one of the listed count)
What does a river cutting cause in a sedimentary rock?
What is a gap?
What is the branch of geology concerned with the order and relative position of strata and their relationship to the geological time scale?
What is stratigraphy?
What is the best rock for absolute dating?
What is a sedimentary rock?
What layer of a sedimentary rock is the youngest?
What is the top layer?
What dating does relative data give?
What is geometric dating?
What at the most simple level allows geologists to determine the sequence of events in a sedimentary basin?
Why is stratigraphy important?
How old does a sedimentary rock have to be to be dated with absolute age?
What is 50,000 years?
What does the D in the formula A=(R+N)D stand for?
What is the depositional layer?
How do layers of a sedimentary rock extend?
What is sideways?