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What does an unconformity tell us about the ages of the nearby rock layers?
- the rock layers are the same age
- the rock layers have very different ages
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- the rock layers have a gap in time and the age of the rock layers is not continuous. The unconformity indicates a period of erosion or non-deposition and the rock layers above it are younger than the ones below it.
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