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Question bank: Unit 4 — Dating Planet Earth

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Granite and metamorphic rocks of the Red Sea mountains indicate that these mountains:

are among the oldest parts of Earth's crust

formed on a modern beach

are made of limestone

are volcanoes still erupting

Basalt overlying limestone suggests that:

the area was volcanic first, then sea

the area was a sea first, then it was covered by volcanic lava

the rocks are metamorphic

the limestone was formed after the basalt

Marine fossils on high mountain peaks indicate that:

fish climbed the mountains

the area was once a sea floor that was later uplifted

the sea is rising now

the fossils fell from the sky