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Rutgers Dinosaurs Exam 1 Study Guide Solutions Nicholas Steno - ANSWER-This man became a catholic bishop, challenged the tear theory, and is known as the Father of Stratigraphy Law of Original Horizontality - ANSWER-This principle states sediments are deposited under the influence of gravity a...

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Nicholas Steno - ANSWER✔✔-This man became a catholic bishop, challenged the tear

theory, and is known as the Father of Stratigraphy


Law of Original Horizontality - ANSWER✔✔-This principle states sediments are

deposited under the influence of gravity as nearly horizontal beds.


Law of Superposition - ANSWER✔✔-This principle states that top layers of rock are

younger than bottom layers.


Law of Faunal (Flaural) Succession - ANSWER✔✔-Sedimentary rock strata contain

fossilized flora and fauna that these fossils succeed each other vertically in a specific,

reliable order that can be identified over wide horizontal distances


Fossil - ANSWER✔✔-This is a remnant, or trace of ancient living creatures, enclosed in

rock, that is formed after mineralization after the organism is covered in sediment.


Body Fossil - ANSWER✔✔-This type of fossil is a whole, or part of a body of a once

living organism.


Trace Fossils - ANSWER✔✔-This type of fossil provides evidence of biological activity

from once living organisms.

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, Index Fossils - ANSWER✔✔-These types of fossils are widely distributed for a short

amount of time, have distinguishing features, and help date strata.


Relative Dating - ANSWER✔✔-This type of dating method helps put events in order.


Absolute Dating - ANSWER✔✔-This type of dating method helps give events a

numerical date. It is also called Chronometric Dating.


half life - ANSWER✔✔-the times it takes the parent to decay into the daugther


Parent material is the original element


Daughter material is what it decays into


The Big Five Mass Extinctions - ANSWER✔✔-End-Ordovician, Late Devonian, End-

Permian, End-Triassic, and End-Cretaceous


Ga - ANSWER✔✔-Known as giga-annum, means billions of years ago.


Ma - ANSWER✔✔-Known as mega-annum, means millions of years ago.


Ka - ANSWER✔✔-Known as kilo-annum, means a thousand year ago


Geologic Time Scale - ANSWER✔✔-Eon -> era -> period -> epoch -> age


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Plate Tectonics - ANSWER✔✔-Large segments of the outer Earth move relative to one

another over the athenosphere



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