Imagine that you found two sandstone beds about 200 kilometers apart. The rock in one region was similar to the rock in the other, but one bed was several million years older than the other. From this information, you would conclude that:
A) the two beds were time correlated.
B) both beds would contain the same index fossils.
C) the two beds were lithologically correlated.
D) a and b
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