Graphic Correlation :: Assignment

Graphic Correlation The foremost flavor toward correlating the three shares was selecting an initial standard reference section. The Morgan creek section was chosen for this because it had, on average, a higher number of fogy occurrences for the six species that were examined. The first and last occurrences of the six species from this section (x axis) were plotted against the first and last occurrences of the selfsame(prenominal) species from the White Creek section (y axis). The product was figure 1.Figure 2 is the same graph as figure 1, but it has a scoop out fit retrace of products through the data, c altogethered the line of correlation. The diamond shaped primes be first occurrences, while the squares are last occurrences. First occurrences which plot to the remedy of the line of correlation indicate that this species is found in older rocks in the White Creek section than in the Morgan Creek section. An example of this is the fossil of species Kingstonia pontotoc ensis (diamond 4). In order to time correlate this fossil to the Morgan Creek section, the point is carried over horizontally to the line of correlation from which the appropriate x economic value (point in the Morgan Creek section) was found. In other words, the first occurrence of this fossil was at a point in time that correlates to 133 m from the bestial of the Morgan Creek section, but due to poor preservation conditions, erosion, or somewhat other geologic phenomena, the fossil is actually found at 138 m from the base of the Morgan Creek section. When a last occurrence plots to the left of the line of correlation, this means that the fossil occurs in younger rocks in the White brook section than in the Morgan Creek section. Kingstonia pontotocensis is the example again. To correlate this to the appropriate bloom in the Morgan Creek section, the data point is moved horizontally to the line of correlation, and from a vertical line to the x axis one buns see that the point ne ed be adjusted from 145m to 153m in the Morgan Creek section. By using this correlation method, a theoretical section is created, by combining first and last occurrences from both sections. It is important to note that this section is not found in nature it is simply an idea which represents what a section would look like if fossil preservation problems did not exist, and all six fossil ranges were accurately represented in the rock record.