Geologists collect observations from field sites and then summarize their interpretations. We will now apply our observations of the kinematics of these rocks by interpreting them to devise a geologic history of the outcrop. You can do this by arranging the following geologic events in the order that they occurred. Rank from oldest to youngest/most recent.

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Jerome Livingston

21 January, 14:03

Geologists collect observations from field sites and then summarize their interpretations. We will now apply our observations of the kinematics of these rocks by interpreting them to devise a geologic history of the outcrop. You can do this by arranging the following geologic events in the order that they occurred. Rank from oldest to youngest/most recent.

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The Sequence of Events

Geologists collect observations from field sites and then summarize their interpretations. We will now apply our observations of the kinematics of these rocks by interpreting them to devise a geologic history of the outcrop. You can do this by arranging the following geologic events in the order that they occurred.

Rank from oldest to youngest/most recent.

•Holes are drilled into the rock during road construction

•Horizontal layers of sediment are deposited.

•Faulting of rock occurs.

•Sediments are buried, compacted, and lithified to form sedimentary rock.

• Youngest/Most Recent

• Oldest

From Oldest to Youngest/Most Recent.

Answer:

• Oldest

• Faulting of rock occurs

• Holes are drilled into the rock during road construction

• Horizontal layers of sediment are deposited.

• Sediments are buried, compacted, and lithified to form sedimentary rock

• Youngest/Most Recent

Explanation:

The aim of this task is to forming a story (interpretation) and to determine the geologic history from an outcrop.

We see that geologists collected observations from field sites and and then we are to summarize their interpretations.

One of the tasks to solve this is to consider the order of events chronologically.

They take information from the observations shared above and then apply the fundamental aspects of Geology to tell the story.

It becomes easier if once first imagine the sequence of events that must have taken place to form this (sentence) outcrop even before you look at the question.

• Ask yourself often, what must happen before something else can happen?

In the task above ... From the Oldest to the Youngest/Most Recent.

• Oldest

• Faulting of rock occurs

• Holes are drilled into the rock during road construction

• Horizontal layers of sediment are deposited.

• Sediments are buried, compacted, and lithified to form sedimentary rock

• Youngest/Most Recent

The dip is the angle from horizontal of a planar geologic surface, such as a fault line.