Determining the Age of RocksVersión en línea Direction: Group the words according to its classification given above. Click the words that belong to the given classification. Total number of words to be identified are given to serve as a guide. Be careful on clicking because you have only 3 trials. por Earth Science 1 Relative Dating 2 Absolute Dating Law of Original Horizontality Younger layers are on top and older layers are on bottom. Sediments deposit originally extended in all directions. Law of Cross Cutting Relationship A method of arranging geological events based on the rock sequence. It is called radiometric dating. A method that gives an actual age of an object or period of an event. Scientist analyze isotopes of radioactive elements. An unstable isotope of one element breaks down into a stable isotope. The stable isotope may be of the same element or of a different element. Scientist can compare the amount of parent material with the amount of daughter material to date rock or fossil.
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