The ______is the idea or concept that ancient life forms succeeded each other in a definite, evolutionary pattern and that the contained assemblage of fossils can determine geologic ages of strata.
A) law of correlative indexing
B) principle of cross correlation
C) principle of fossil succession
D) law of fossil regression

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The concept that ancient life forms succeeded each other in a definite, evolutionary pattern and that the contained assemblage of fossils can determine geologic ages of strata is known as the principle of fossil succession. The other options, law of correlative indexing, principle of cross correlation, and law of fossil regression, are not accurate descriptions of this concept.

The ______Is the Idea or Concept That Ancient Life Forms