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What is one reason why rock layers are not horizontal?

What is one reason why rock layers are not horizontal?
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What is one reason why rock layers are not horizontal?

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One of the most important reasons is that when mountains were built there were events such as tilting. Because of that most of the sedimentary rocks were no longer horizontal.We know that because of the law of original horizontality
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