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If you found two fossils in two different layers of sedimentary rock stacked on each other, how would you know which is older?
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If you found two fossils in two different layers of sedimentary rock stacked on each other, how would you know which is older?

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The lower the fossil the older it is.

So, if two fossils were in different layers of sedimentary rock, the lowest fossil is older.
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