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    • Diagram showing rock layers at 3 different places.
    Rights: The University of Waikato Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato Published 11 May 2011 Size: 66 KB Referencing Hub media

    Rocks in different places can be put into separate time sequences. Fossils in some of the rocks can be correlated to help combine these sequences into longer ones.

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