
Episode 7: The Geologic Column for Beginners (Part 2)
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The Principle of Superposition
Geologists call it the principle of superposition, yet a nice little science stuff worting really complicated names. It just means the older stuff is at the bottom, and the younger stuff is o fll then. And whereis? Where does this principle come from? Well, that the first person really to formulate principle was was someone called nicholas stino in the seventeenth century. He waso er, he was, he was actually a creationist. But he was studying rocks in tuscany, in italy. They were originally deposited horizontally. So these sediments are deposited as as horizontal layers. One layer was laid down before the next layer on top a then the
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