You are sitting in class when your professor begins talking about a dome with the inner layers dating back to the Tertiary and its outer layers dating back to the Permian. You immediately know this professor is wrong. What is your evidence?

A) Domes don't have layers.
B) Domes have the oldest layers in the middle, not the youngest.
C) Now that we know the age of the layers, we would call it a syncline.
D) Domes didn't exist back then.


Answer: B

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