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Uniformitarianism

The present is the key to the past.

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Cross cutting relations

The fracture cutting the rocks is younger than the rocks being cut.

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Superposition

False.

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Primary rocks

Sedimentary rock whose clasts were weathered from igneous and metamorphic rock (Hutton).

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Eons order

Hadean, Archean, Proterozoic, Phanerozoic.

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Eon without evidence for life

Hadean.

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Eons with evidence of microbial life alone

Archean, Proterozoic.

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Youngest Eon with three eras

Phanerozoic.

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Half-life of a radioactive element

False.

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Number of half-lives elapsed

Three.

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Age of the rock with a half-life of 20 million years

60 Ma.

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