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Dating by Stratigraphic Position

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06-02-2004 4:01 AM 		Reply to: Message 11 by Loudmouth
06-01-2004 8:45 PM

Everything new is made of things older
The river deposit would easily be recognized as consisting of detritus derived from older rock.
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Although the individual clasts could be of a wide range of ages, collectively the sediment would be younger than what it overlies.
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