If the same index fossils are found in two separate rock layers, the two rock layers most likely

Index fossils are fossils of organisms that lived during a relatively short, known span of geologic time. If the same index fossils are found in two separate rock layers, the layers most likely formed during that same time span. Thus, the layers were formed at the same time, rather than showing a particular kind of unconformity.

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