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What is the sequence of rocks produced by a regression of the sea?

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Answer: Regression: the oceanward migration of the shoreline (i.e., draining of flooded land) During a transgression the sequence of rocks will show an onlap sequence (the facies will become deeper-water environments as you move up through the sediments)

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