GEOL 105 : Geology 106 Test 1

• School: University of Louisiana Lafayette
• Department: Geology
• Course: GEOL 105
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Absolute dates: actual numbers and dates, more recently practiced order of things occuring in relationship to one another: age of earth created on october 23, 4004 bc. Age of earth determined by old testement: early scientific methods of dating. Heat loss of cooling earth: uniformitatianism: process of the earth have been occuring that way since it formed. First textbook in geology: charles lyell, principles of geology: relative dating: use of pysical characteristics/positions of rocks to determine age. Geology 106 test 1: geologic time scale. Fossil succession origional horizontality lateral continuity cross-cutting relationships. Younger rocks are laid down on top of older rocks. Sediments on surface origionally laid down horizontally, if it is not horizontal today some deformation occured to cause it. Sediments origionally laid down laterally in all directions. Intrustions and faults are younger than the intruded or faulted rocks.