Law of Cross Cutting Relationships

This law says that if a feature (fault, intrusion, etc) cuts across another feature, it is YOUNGER than the feature is cuts across.

• Law of Original Horizontality

• Law of Superposition

• Law of Cross Cutting Relationships

• Index Fossils

If a rock layer has an intrusion going through it, the intrusion had to be there BEFORE the rock layer.

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Which statement best describes the law of cross-cutting relationships?

• Cross-cutting relationships have no impact on determining the age of geological features.

• Geological features are younger than the features they cut across.

• The law of cross-cutting relationships only applies to sedimentary rocks.

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

What is it called when a fault or magma cuts though rock layers and is younger?

• law of relative dating

• law of superposition

• principle of cross cutting relationships

• principle of original horizontality

The Principle of Cross-Cutting Relationships states that an igneous intrusion is 

• always younger than the layers it cuts across

• always older than the layers it cuts across

• the same age as the rock it melted

• none of the answers are correct

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Choose the correct order of relative ages for the rock layers below, starting with the youngest, and finishing with the oldest layer.  

• A, E, B, C, D

• A, B, C, D, E

• E, A, D, C, B

• E, D, C, B, A

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

According to this Principle, if one geologic feature cuts across another feature, the feature that it cuts across is older.

• Cross-Cutting Relationships

• Superposition

• Original Horizontality

• Lateral Continuity

• Inclusion

What geologic principle tells me the age of M

• Cross-Cutting Relationships

• Superposition

• Original Horizontality

• Inclusions

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Which principle states that a geological feature is younger than the features it cuts across?

• Law of Superposition

• Law of Original Horizontality

• Law of Cross Cutting Relationships

• Law of Lateral Continuity

If a fault cuts through a sequence of sedimentary rocks, what can be inferred about the age of the fault?

• The fault is older than the rocks

• The fault is younger than the rocks

• The fault is the same age as the rocks

• The fault's age cannot be determined

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4