Multiple Choice
The statement that "the same facies following one another in a conformable vertical sequence will also replace one another laterally" is known as ____.
A) Gressly's principle
B) principle of fossil succession
C) Smith's Law of Conformity
D) Steno's axiom
E) Walther's Law
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