Wikipedia's article on the law of superposition in stratigraphy. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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A community-edited tertiary reference, used here for the uncontested seventeenth-century history of the principle, not a matter of interpretation. Sources
Law of Superposition (Wikipedia)
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