Using evidence from rock sequences to understand past environments

'Applying ‘the present is the key to the past’ An outdoor activity to apply the present to the past - using Earth science-thinking in reverse'

An outdoor-based thought experiment to show how Earth scientists use evidence from rock sequences to understand past environments. Pupils develop their understanding of the Principle of Uniformitarianism (the present is the key to the past), first developed by scientists in the late 1700s.

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