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Select the statement that accurately summarizes the difficulty in using relative dating to find the age of rocks and fossils.
Fossils are most often found in sedimentary rock.
The fossils in the bottom layers of rock are typically older than the fossils in the top layers of rock.
Sedimentary rock usually forms in neat layers at the bottom of a body of water.
The breaking, folding, and bending of rock caused by moving tectonic plates disturbs rock layers.
Fossils are most often found in sedimentary rock.
The fossils in the bottom layers of rock are typically older than the fossils in the top layers of rock.
Sedimentary rock usually forms in neat layers at the bottom of a body of water.
The breaking, folding, and bending of rock caused by moving tectonic plates disturbs rock layers.
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"The breaking, folding, and bending of rock caused by moving tectonic plates disturbs rock layers."
Reason: tectonic activity can overturn, fold, or fault strata, so the original order of deposition (used in relative dating) can be altered, making ages harder to determine.
Reason: tectonic activity can overturn, fold, or fault strata, so the original order of deposition (used in relative dating) can be altered, making ages harder to determine.
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