How can fossiliferous sedimentary rock most easily be dated and correlated if they lack the most diagnostic index fossil for that period or epoch?
A) by mapping out the intervening contacts or drilling a series of boreholes between
B) by using the entire fossil assemblage and ranges for the two localities in question
C) by performing radiometric dating like U- 238/Pb- 206 or C- 14 on fossils
D) by paying a geologist to tell you the answer
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