How does the principle of faunal succession assist the technique of relative dating?
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Relative dating is the technique used to determine the relative order of past events. It also determines the age of a certain rock that has existed from the past. The principle of faunal succession assists relative dating because faunal succession shows the sedimentary rock strata that contain the flora (plants) and fauna (animals) that are already fossilized. These fossils of flora and fauna area arranged vertically in a specific chronological order.
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The faunal succession allows for the strata to be identified along with being dated by the fossils that are found within them. The fossil content of the rocks along with the law of the superposition aids in the determination of the time sequence during which the sedimentary rocks had been laid down.
The evolution elaborates the observed faunal and the floral succession preserved in the rocks.