In which situation is the principle of cross-cutting relationships useful in determining relative age?

The principle of cross-cutting relationships says that a geologic feature that cuts through another feature formed later than what it cuts. A fault that breaks through sedimentary layers must therefore be younger than those layers. Lava flows stacked over one another are dated by superposition, while the other choices do not describe a feature cutting across another.

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