Multiple Choice
If the lithology and fossil content of two bodies of rock on opposite sides of a canyon are identical,then these remaining outcrops were likely physically connected at one time and formed part of an extensive,sheet-like layer of rock.This idea summarizes the principle of 
A) superposition.
B) lateral continuity.
C) original horizontality.
D) uniformitarianism.
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