1. Tilted outcrops of ____________, the deposits of sediment avalanches that fall off of the continental slope, can be oriented right-side-up using observations of their sedimentary structures called graded bedding.

2. Preparing descriptive diagrams of isolated rock outcrops and their fossils is called measuring section. These are useful in determining equivalence in age of sediments, a process called _________________.

3. A fault that cuts across sediments is ____________ than the sediments.

4. Whenever we see folded sediments, we know that the sediments were deposited _____________ before the folding occurred.

5. Paradoxides is a Cambrian trilobite which lived for a relatively short amount of time but was widespread and abundant. It is a good example of an _________ fossil, one which is useful in correlation.

6. Whenever we see Mesozoic dinosaur skeletons in sediments underneath sediments containing Paleozoic trilobites, we know that these beds are ________________.

7. Whenever we see Cambrian trilobites in a horizontal layer just beneath another horizontal layer containing Devonian trilobites, we know that some time is missing, and we call the boundary between them a _____________.

8. The lake deposits up in Pompton Lakes, NJ would be a good place to study the chronology of changes in local plants using fossil pollen in the muds, since the _________ give a reliable and inexpensive way to date the changes.

9. The peat and wood in a Quaternary bog deposit could be dated using ___________-______ radiometric methods.

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