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paleontologists use a wide variety of techniques to date the absolute and relative ages of fossils they uncover. the photograph shows a rock outcrop. in which layer of the outcrop would paleontologists discover the oldest fossils? ○ layer w ○ layer x ○ layer y ○ layer z
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In geology, the principle of superposition states that in undisturbed sedimentary rock layers, the oldest layers are at the bottom.
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Layer Z.