Earth history

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Pentz introduces the idea that the present is the key to the past. To support this view he poses some questions about fossils. By studying the modern environment we have clues as to how fossil sedi...ments were formed. Wilson emphasises the view that the present is the key to the past by showing that the rocks are only a static record of a period in geological time.

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	Examining a coastal environment to understand geological processes	Professor Pentz gives an explanation of how we can find out how rocks were made by studying what is...	25 July 1971
	Grain size measurements of sand taken from different areas of a beach	The process of measuring sand grain sizes to determine the size distribution differences between...	25 July 1971