If we see a layer of sedimentary rock that has a fault cutting through it as wel

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If we see a layer of sedimentary rock that has a fault cutting through it as well as a dike that through both the bed and the fault, we can use the principle of cross-cutting relationships to infer: the sedimentary rock layer formed first, then the fault then the dike the fault formed first, then the dike, then the sedimentary rock layer the sedimentary rock layer formed first, then the dike, then the fault no age sequence can be inferred front this information the fault formed first, then the sedimentary rock layer, then the dike

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Answer: A) the sedimentary rock layer formed first, then the fault, then the dike.
According to principal of cross cutting relationships- It can be described the relationships between the rock strata and cross cutting such as faults. Here faults are always younger than the rock it cuts through. And here intrusion are always younger than both.

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