Evolution and Change Chapter Fourteen: Earth and Life History 14.1 Evidence from Rocks 14.2 How Earth Changes 14.3 Natural Selection.

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Evolution and Change

Chapter Fourteen: Earth and Life History 14.1 Evidence from Rocks 14.2 How Earth Changes 14.3 Natural Selection

Investigation 14A How can you determine the sequence of past events? Relative Dating

14.1 Evidence from Rock Geology is the study of Earth’s formation and structure. Geologists study rocks to find clues to Earth’s formation. Evidence from rocks and fossils allows us to understand the evolution of life on Earth.

14.1 Evidence from Rock In 1666, Nicholas Steno, a Danish anatomist, studied a shark’s head and noticed that the shark’s teeth resembled mysterious stones called “tonguestones”.

14.1 Evidence from Rock Steno theorized that tonguestones looked like shark’s teeth because they actually were shark’s teeth that had been buried and became fossils.

14.1 The formation of sedimentary rock The rock cycle is the process of rock formation and recycling. Sedimentary rock formation is part of the rock cycle.

14.1 The formation of sedimentary rock Any change in the composition of material being deposited shows up as a distinct horizontal layer. Superposition states that the bottom layer of sedimentary rock is older than the layer on top because the bottom layer formed first.

14.1 The formation of sedimentary rock Rock layers may bend or shift and are found standing vertically, or tilted, or rolled into curves.

14.1 The formation of sedimentary rock Horizontal layers of rock are continuous. By comparing rock layers in the Grand Canyon, geologists have found that the layers on one side of the canyon match up with the layers on the other side.

14.1 Relative dating Steno’s principles are used by geologists to determine the age of fossils and rocks in a process called relative dating. Relative dating is a method of sequencing events in the order they happened.

14.1 Relative dating A paleontologist can sequence the organisms found according to their location in the layers. The organisms found in the top layers appeared after the organisms found in the layers below them.

14.1 More relative dating The idea of cross-cutting relationships states that a vein of rock that cuts across a rock’s layers is younger than the layers. The middle and top layers formed after the bottom layer but before the vein.

14.1 More relative dating Sometimes rock pieces called inclusions are found inside another rock. During the formation of this rock, sediments or melted rock surrounded the inclusion and then solidified. Therefore, the inclusions are older than the surrounding rock.

14.1 More relative dating Faunal succession means that fossils can be used to identify the relative age of the layers of sedimentary rock. For example, dinosaur fossils are found in rock that is about 65 to 200 million years old because these animals lived that long ago.