There are many green house gases and carbondioxide is one of them. Green house gas has the ability to stop the heat from going to the atmosphere. This heat energy reduces the atmospheric carbondioxide to dissolve in the ocean water so more concentration of carbondioxide is present in the atmosphere which stop the reflected sunlight rays into the space and thus increase the temperature of the earth surface. This increase in temperature called global warming.
Law of superposition, a major principle of stratigraphy stating that within a sequence of layers of sedimentary rock, the oldest layer is at the base and that the layers are progressively younger with ascending order in the sequence.