You Are Sitting in Class When Your Professor Begins Talking

question 5

Multiple Choice

You are sitting in class when your professor begins talking about a dome with the inner layers dating back to the Tertiary and its outer layers dating back to the Permian.You immediately know this professor is wrong.What is your evidence?

• A)Domes don't have layers.
• B)Domes have the oldest layers in the middle, not the youngest.
• C)Now that we know the age of the layers, we would call it a syncline.
• D)Domes didn't exist back then.

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