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What was Nicholas Steno's contribution to geology?

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His work on formation of rock and fossils
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Three principles that today are known as the "Steno Principles"

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Nicholas Steno proposed three principles that today are known as the "Steno Principles".

The first: Overlay. there are layers of sediments so that the lower one was deposited first, and the upper one the last.

The second: Original horizontality. No matter what the current orientation of a stratum is, it was originally created by a horizontal water tank. That then could have moved.

The third: Lateral continuity. Water deposits sediments in a continuous layer that ends only at the edge of its basin. Therefore, layers of rocks corresponding to both sides of a valley were originally a single layer.

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