Which describes the difference between the law of inclusion and the law of crosscutting in relative dating of rocks and fossils?(1 point)

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Intruding objects are younger in the law of inclusion.
Intruding objects are younger in the law of inclusion.

Intruding objects are older in the law of inclusion.
Intruding objects are older in the law of inclusion.

Bottom layers of rock are younger only in the law of crosscutting.
Bottom layers of rock are younger only in the law of crosscutting.

Bottom layers of rock are older only in the law of crosscutting.

Answer 1

The correct statement would be: Intruding objects are younger in the law of inclusion.

In the law of inclusion, if a rock or sediment layer includes fragments of another rock, the included fragments must be older than the rock layer that contains them. In contrast, the law of crosscutting states that a geological feature (such as a fault or an intrusion) that cuts through another feature must be younger than the feature it cuts.

Thus, intruding objects that disturb other layers or features are always considered to be younger than the layers they cut through.