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A geologist finds some tilted sedimentary rock layers.

Which conclusion can the geologist draw by looking at the rock layers?


1.Their absolute age is 600 million years.

2.They were tilted before they were deposited.

3.They were originally deposited horizontally.

4.The youngest layer was originally deposited as the bottom layer.

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Answer:

Angular unconformity also causes geologic tilting. Angular unconformity occurs when parallel strata of sedimentary rocks are deposited on layers that are tilted, perhaps as a result of erosion. So the answer I think is B/2.

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