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a road cut along an interstate reveals a vein of granite, an igneous rock, cutting through one layer of gneiss, a metamorphic rock, and four layers of limestone and mudstone, both being sedimentary rocks. using the principles of superposition and crosscutting relationships, a geologist could tell that the igneous vein occurred shallow seas covered the area

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C) After

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The vein penetrates through all the sedimentary layers so they were present before the volcanic eruption.

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