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In which situation is the principle of cross cutting relationships useful in determining relative age

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Answer:

A fault breaks through sedimentary layers.

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Cross Cutting Relationships: younger events (faults, igneous intrusions, erosion, metamorphism) "cut" or are superimposed on something. That something had to be there to be "cross cut" or modified.

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Answer:

depends on age factors

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