GLGY 209 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Lithification, Georges Cuvier, James Hutton
31 May 2016
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Introduced principle of actualism present is the key to the past. Produced first geological map of england, wales and southern scotland. The study of rock layers (strata) and layering (stratification). It deals with the classification, correlations and interpretation of stratified (layered) rocks which can be. Fossil evidence to correlate and interpret rock strata. Postulates that older rock layer are at the bottom of successions and younger layers occupy progressively higher position according to age of formation in a sequence of undisturbed layer. A layer of rock is older than the layer above it and younger than the layer below it in an undisturbed sequence of layers. States that when layer is forming, no layer exist above other than fluid from which layer material were precipitated. Layers of sedimentary rocks were originally deposited horizontally or near horizontal, parallel or nearly parallel to the earth surface and deposition on steep slope will be washed away before lithification.
