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    Relative and Absolute Dating Earth Science 11

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    Absolute dating provides numerical ages for geological materials by measuring radioactive decay, while relative dating only places events in chronological order without specific ages. Absolute dating methods include radiocarbon dating, potassium-argon dating, and thermoluminescence. Relative dating is used to determine if one geologic event is older or younger than another based on the fossil or stratigraphic layer, but does not give specific dates. Both absolute and relative dating are important techniques used by geologists.

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    Relative and Absolute Dating Earth Science 11

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    Absolute dating provides numerical ages for geological materials by measuring radioactive decay, while relative dating only places events in chronological order without specific ages. Absolute dating methods include radiocarbon dating, potassium-argon dating, and thermoluminescence. Relative dating is used to determine if one geologic event is older or younger than another based on the fossil or stratigraphic layer, but does not give specific dates. Both absolute and relative dating are important techniques used by geologists.

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    Absolute dating provides numerical ages for geological materials by measuring radioactive decay, while relative dating only places events in chronological order without specific ages. Absolute dating methods include radiocarbon dating, potassium-argon dating, and thermoluminescence. Relative dating is used to determine if one geologic event is older or younger than another based on the fossil or stratigraphic layer, but does not give specific dates. Both absolute and relative dating are important techniques used by geologists.

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    Relative and Absolute Dating Earth Science 11

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    Absolute dating provides numerical ages for geological materials by measuring radioactive decay, while relative dating only places events in chronological order without specific ages. Absolute dating methods include radiocarbon dating, potassium-argon dating, and thermoluminescence. Relative dating is used to determine if one geologic event is older or younger than another based on the fossil or stratigraphic layer, but does not give specific dates. Both absolute and relative dating are important techniques used by geologists.

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    ABSOLUTE DATING
    Absolute dating is the process of determining an age on a
    specified chronology in archaeology and geology. ... Absolute
    dating provides a numerical age or range, in contrast with relative
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    dating, which places events in order without any measure of the
    age between events. Precise isotopic ages are called absolute
    ages, since they date the timing of events not relative to each
    other but as the time elapsed between a rock-forming event and
    the present. Absolute dating by means of uranium and lead
    isotopes has been improved to the point that for rocks. Some
    examples of absolute dating include radiocarbon dating,
    potassium-argon dating, and thermoluminescence.
    RELATIVE DATING
    Relative dating is the process of determining if one rock or
    geologic event is older or younger than another, without
    knowing their specific ages—i.e., how many years ago the object
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    was formed. Relative dating methods estimate whether an object
    is younger or older than other things found at the site. Relative
    dating does not offer specific dates, it simply allows to determine
    if one artifact, fossil, or stratigraphic layer is older than another.
    relative age dating has to do with determining whether one
    geological or paleontological event happened before or after a
    second event.
    HOW IS RELATIVE DATING HELPFUL

    Relative dating puts geologic events in chronological

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    order without requiring that a specific numerical age be assigned
    to each event. Second, it is possible to determine the numerical
    age for fossils or earth materials. Relative age estimates were
    calibrated using radiocarbon to date about ... the new geologic
    era of human modification of the natural world.
    HOW IS ABSOLUTE DATING HELPFUL
    Absolute dating methods determine how much time has passed
    since rocks formed by measuring the radioactive decay of
    isotopes or the effects of radiation on the crystal structure of
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    minerals. Paleomagnetism measures the ancient orientation of
    the Earth's magnetic field to help determine the age of rocks.
    Geologists often need to know the age of material that they find.
    They use absolute dating methods, sometimes called numerical
    dating, to give rocks an actual date, or date range, in numbers of
    years. This is different to relative dating, which only puts
    geological events in time order.
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