What properties about fossil deposition make Fossil Succession one geologic principle for defining relative age?

a. Fossil species has a broad range in strata
b. Each fossil species has a limited range in a succession of strata, therefore fossil species
occur in strata in a predictable order
c. Once a fossil species becomes extinct, it never reappears
d. The same fossil species may appear at different layers at different times
e. Both b and c


Ans: e. Both b and c

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