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Congratulations! You have just repeated a discovery by Niels Stensen (also known as Nicolaus Steno) almost 400 years ago that is one of the foundations for relative dating. This principle of superposition states that in a sequence of strata that is still in its original horizontal position, the youngest beds will be at the ____ and the oldest beds will be at the ____.

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Answer: Youngest beds will be at the East and the oldest beds will be at the West.

Step-by-step explanation:

Because the Sun still rises on the East.

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