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show hard translucent fossilized resin produced by extinct coniferous trees of the Tertiary period, typically yellowish in color.  
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Fossil   show
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show an object made by shaping molten metal or similar material in a mold  
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show a fossil that is useful for dating and correlating the strata in which it is found.  
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show a hollow container used to give shape to molten or hot liquid material (such as wax or metal) when it cools and hardens.  
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show a 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 an igneous intrusion is always younger than the rock it cuts across  
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show a system of chronological measurement that relates stratigraphy to time,  
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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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show common practice for dating rocks and strata  
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show the time taken for the radioactivity of a specified isotope to fall to half its original value  
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show is a core sample that is typically removed from an ice sheet  
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Isotope   show
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Radiometric dating   show
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show the action or process of differentiating.  
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show release or give off as a gas or vapor.  
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Supercontinent   show
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Pangaea   show
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show a process in which a section of the earth's crust is folded and deformed by lateral compression to form a mountain range.  
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show the gradual development of something, especially from a simple to a more complex form.  
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Natural Selection   show
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