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1. Which one of the contacts (surfaces) between lettered layers is a disconformity?

1. Which one of the contacts (surfaces) between lettered layers is a disconformity?

Applications and Investigations in Earth Science (9th Edition)
Applications and Investigations in Earth Science (9th Edition)
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ISBN:9780134746241
Author:Edward J. Tarbuck, Frederick K. Lutgens, Dennis G. Tasa
Publisher:Edward J. Tarbuck, Frederick K. Lutgens, Dennis G. Tasa
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1. Which one of the contacts (surfaces) between lettered layers is a disconformity?

2. A system is the rock/sediment deposited during a period of time. What system(s) of rock is/ are completely missing at the disconformity?

Absolute Ages (in millions of years) Relative Ages Ranges (black vertical lines) of Index Fossils Pictured Below Eras Periods 0.2- Quaternary 2.6– Homo sapiens Neogene 23 34- Paleogene Baculites Fagopsis trees 65 76– Exogyra Cretaceous Period 82- 145 Jurassic Period Dinosaurs 200 210- Mammals Inoceramus Triassic Period 225– 2555- Neuropteris ferns Permian Period Sharks 280– -299 Reptiles Pennsylvanian Period 300- 310- -318 Mississippian Period Chonetes 359 365- Amphibians Mucrospirifer Devonian Period 397- -416 425- Phacops Silurian Period Strophomena -444 Ordovician Period 450- 470- Flexicalymene Platystrophia 488 500- Cambrian Period 515– 520- Elrathia Olenellus 543 Precambrian 4550 PALEOZOIC ERA MESOZOIC ERA ERA DIOZON3)
Transcribed Image Text:Absolute Ages (in millions of years) Relative Ages Ranges (black vertical lines) of Index Fossils Pictured Below Eras Periods 0.2- Quaternary 2.6– Homo sapiens Neogene 23 34- Paleogene Baculites Fagopsis trees 65 76– Exogyra Cretaceous Period 82- 145 Jurassic Period Dinosaurs 200 210- Mammals Inoceramus Triassic Period 225– 2555- Neuropteris ferns Permian Period Sharks 280– -299 Reptiles Pennsylvanian Period 300- 310- -318 Mississippian Period Chonetes 359 365- Amphibians Mucrospirifer Devonian Period 397- -416 425- Phacops Silurian Period Strophomena -444 Ordovician Period 450- 470- Flexicalymene Platystrophia 488 500- Cambrian Period 515– 520- Elrathia Olenellus 543 Precambrian 4550 PALEOZOIC ERA MESOZOIC ERA ERA DIOZON3)
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