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How a scientist might support a hypothesis that rocks from one quarry were formed at the same time as rock from another quarry 50km away

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A method to determine this is correlation (matching of unique rock fossils exposed in one geographic region to similar fossils exposed in other geographic regions).

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Scientists can come up with a hypothesis that the rocks from two different quarries probably formed at the same time though they are separated by a distance of 50km by the help of the correlation method.

Correlation is defined as the interconnection between two objects that might have formed at the same time but at different places. Similar rock composition and quarries may be present which are likely to form under certain geologically suitable conditions. This gives the idea that the rocks with quarries might have formed at the same time and due to the processes of weathering and erosion, the rocks got separated.

This method is usually implemented in order to determine the age of similar rock strata occurring at two different places.

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