GENERAL GEOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Sediments are deposited horizontally. This is original horizontality. The oldest sedimentary rocks are at the bottom of the sequence. This is the law of superposition.

Detailed explanation-2: -Principle of Original Horizontality, states that sediments are deposited in flat, horizontal layers.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Law of Original Horizontality suggests that all rock layers are originally laid down (deposited) horizontally and can later be deformed. This allows us to infer that something must have happened to the rocks to make them tilted. This includes mountain building events, earthquakes, and faulting.

Detailed explanation-4: -law of superposition, a major principle of stratigraphy stating that within a sequence of layers of sedimentary rock, the oldest layer is at the base and that the layers are progressively younger with ascending order in the sequence.