The lower rocks in the Muav limestone are 505 million years old. The upper rocks in the Redwall limestone are 340 million years old. What could explain the gap?

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Natasha Tyler

Chemistry

21 May, 15:14

The lower rocks in the Muav limestone are 505 million years old. The upper rocks in the Redwall limestone are 340 million years old. What could explain the gap?

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Jovan Stafford · Answer 1

This could be because no deposition took place or there was a long period of erosion that took away these layers of rocks. A lack of deposition would lead to a large gap in the rock strata, while a long period of erosion would have taken away whatever rocks had existed, leaving what would look like a gap that didn't have any rocks existing.