Multiple Choice
When Nicolaus Steno discovered that the relative ages of rocks can be determined by examining the position of fossils in separate layers of soil, he coined a process called
A) stratigraphy.
B) paleomagnetic dating.
C) radiometric dating.
D) fossilography.
E) dendrochronology.
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