Relative Ages of Rocks
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Relative Ages of RocksQuestions
- What is the principle of Uniformitarianism and how is it important to the relative dating of rocks?
- What is the age of inclusions found in a rock relative to the rock in which they are found?
- What is the principle of cross-cutting relations and why is it important for relative dating?
- What forces can disturb relative dating?
- What is the law of superposition and how can it be used to relatively date rocks?
- What is meant by dating rocks relatively rather than absolutely?
- How can fossils be used to determine the relative ages of rock layers?
- How does the law of crosscutting relationships help scientists determine the relative age of rocks?
- Are only sedimentary rocks used for relative age determination? Why?
- How do index fossils help determine age of rock layers?
- How do index fossils help determine age of rock layers?
- What is the relative age of coquina rock according to the geologic time scale?
- What is the difference between absolute age and relative age of fossils?
- Why is it difficult to date sedimentary rocks using radiometric dating techniques?
- How would the age of the oldest rocks on the continents compare with the age of oldest rocks on the seafloor?
- How does carbon-14 dating work? How can it tell a basket is 3000 years old, for example?
- Can you carbon date stone material? What materials can undergo carbon dating? How are monuments such as Stonehenge in England dated?
- How do fossils help us determine the age of rock layers?
- How does the rock cycle help us to learn Earth's past?