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Bilingual glossary of geology


Superposition (Principle of)  Superposition (principe de)
A principle stating that within a sequence of undisturbed sedimentary rocks (or deposits), the oldest layers are on the bottom, and the youngest on the top (adapted from: Plummer et al., 2007).

Themes:
  Dating methods and geological time scale

Related words:
  Relative Dating
  Stratification


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