Why is the early rock record of the Precambrian rocks more difficult to interpret than the rock record of the

Phanerozoic Eon? What will be an ideal response?


Precambrian rocks have been altered by metamorphism, completely deformed, or buried
deeply beneath younger rocks. There are few fossils and they are of little use
stratigraphically.

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