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Unit 6 Geological Time - Sheridan Lee

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show fossilized tree resin  
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show the remains or impression of a prehistoric organism preserved in petrified form or as a mold or cast in rock.  
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Cast   show
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Index Fossil   show
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show a distinctive and typical style, form, or character.  
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show process of fossilization in which mineral deposits form internal casts of organisms  
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show a fossil of a footprint, trail, burrow, or other trace of an animal rather than of the animal itself.  
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show states that an igneous intrusion is always younger than the rock it cuts across  
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Geologic time   show
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Lateral Continuity   show
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show states that layers of sediment are originally deposited horizontally under the action of gravity  
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Relative age   show
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Superposition   show
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Unconformity   show
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show the theory that changes in the earth's crust during geological history have resulted from the action of continuous and uniform processes.  
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show the true age of a rock or fossil  
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show he time taken for the radioactivity of a specified isotope to fall to half its original value.  
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Ice core   show
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Isotope   show
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Radiometric dating   show
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show The geological process by which the Earth came to have its present interior structure  
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show To remove embedded gas from (a solid), as by heating or reducing the pressure  
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show each of several large landmasses (notably Pangaea, Gondwana, and Laurasia) thought to have divided to form the present continents in the geological past.  
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show hypothetical supercontinent that included all current land masses, believed to have been in existence before the continents broke apart during the Triassic and Jurassic Periods.  
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Orogeny   show
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Evoluation   show
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Natural selection   show
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