EBK PHYSICAL SCIENCE
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Chapter 21, Problem 30AC
To determine
The geologic time scale identified major blocks of time in Earth’s past is given from the following options:
major worldwide extinctions of life on Earth.
the beginning of radioactive decay of certain unstable elements.
measuring reversals in Earth’s magnetic field.
None of the above is correct.
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