Diagram below represents a cross section of a portion of the Earth's crust. Oceanic crust is thicker than the mantle. Continental crust is composed primarily of sedimentary rock.
Diagram below represents a cross section of a portion of the Earth's crust. Oceanic crust is thicker than the mantle. Continental crust is composed primarily of sedimentary rock.
Diagram below represents a cross section of a portion of the Earth's crust. Oceanic crust is thicker than the mantle. Continental crust is composed primarily of sedimentary rock.
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Folding and erosion occurred after the fOlmation of the ¥lmch statement about the Earth's crust is best supported by the diagram? (1) Gayle shale (2) Freeport sandstone (1) The oceanic crust is thicker than the mantle. (3) Erie coal, but before formation of Freeport (2) The continental crust is thicker than the sa.lldstone oceanic crust. (4) Dunbar limestone, but before formation or (3) The continental crust is composed primarily Erie coal of sedimentary rock. (4) The crust is composed of denser rock than 10. Which geologic event occurred most recently in the mantle is. New York State? 8. The diagram below represents cross sections of (1) A continental glacier covered most of the three rock outcrops approximately 100 State. kilometers apart. \\That would be the best (2) The entire State was uplifted fi.om below sea method or correlating the rock layers of each leveL outcrop? (3) The Palisades Sill intruded. (4) The Taconic Mountains formed. c 1..'.. 1J... The characteristic of the radioactive isotope uraruum-238 that ma.kes this isotope useful for accurately dating the age of a rock is the isotope's (1) organic origin (2) constant half-life (3) common OCCUITencein sediments '1 ' ~ (4) resistance to \veat1J,cring a.nd erosion 1 ',l c,v",n8111'lO -,---, ..•..i .•.tJ. "o"k ;:,.;;. "'...~tynes .....t-' ... /"" comparmg \L) .. mmera 1 composItIOn ' . temperature of 73° Fahrenheit is ) comparing index fossils appr()Xirllatel~veq'ual to a temperature of (4'1 ro,rnpc""l'nn l'h;~'i,.",,,,s'" ,,+ '- ,) ."" l./.. .•. {..w. l....I.b 11..>.\..A'L.d..\.. ••.' C'..l... (I 17° Celsi"us 26° Celsius 23° eelsiv.s 1620 C=elsius