This Figure Shows Two Sections That Represent the Same Age

question 120

Multiple Choice

This figure shows two sections that represent the same age range and contain some of the same fossils. If you compare the two sections, what conclusions do you come to?

• A) Some of the fossils must have had a limited geographic distribution.
• B) Some units were deposited in the left section but not in the right one or were eroded away.
• C) The thickness of the units are consistent between the two sections.
• D) All of these.
• E) None of these.

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