Working on Fossiliferous Strata in the Mountains of Western Italy

question 92

Multiple Choice

Working on fossiliferous strata in the mountains of western Italy, ________ was first to work out ________, which is the fundamental way geologists know which bed is older in any sedimentary sequence.

• A)James Hutton, the principle of uniformitarianism
• B)Charles Lyell, the sequence of orogenies
• C)William Smith, the principle of fossil succession
• D)Nicolaus Steno, the law of superposition

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Reaction

A process in which one or more substances are changed into one or more different substances through the breaking and forming of chemical bonds.

Major Organic Product

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