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What is the correct order of age (youngest to oldest) of these carboniferous rocks.
Coal measures, millstone grit, limestone series
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What two rock series do Hutton's Unconformity separate?
Devonian Red Sandstone and Silurian Grey Wacke
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What is the daughter isotope of 238U
206Pb
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What is the half life decay of carbon 14
5730 years
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which rock is a coarse textured, intrusive igneous rock dominated by quarts, K feldspar and mica?
Granite
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which rock is a fine grained, extrusive igneous rock dominated by hornblende and augite?
Basalt
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What is the correct order of the geological time periods?
cambrian, ordivician, silurian, devonian, carboniferous, permian, triassic, jurassic, cretacrous, eocene, oligocene, miocene, pleiocene, pleistocene, holocene
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