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Palaeontology contributes to stratigraphy chiefly by

  • A.dating and correlating strata through their fossils
  • B.measuring the strength of the strata
  • C.determining the strata's mineral composition
  • D.mapping the strata's present-day topography

Answer: A

Species appear and disappear at particular times, so a distinctive assemblage identifies the age of the bed containing it wherever it is found. It was the basis of the time scale long before radiometric dating existed.

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