How the ages of fossils are calculated? Do you recollect the method of radioactive dating and the principles behind the processes? 2 biology?
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Relative Dating. Two methods to determine the age of fossils: * When dug into the Earth, the fossils closer to the surface are more recent as compared to the fossils found in deeper layers. * The fossils can also be dated by detecting the ratios of different isotopes of the same element in the fossil material
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Relative dating and absolute dating.
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- Fossils may be defined as the left over impressions of the plants and animals that are buried under rocks over million of years ago.
- The fossil study is important to study the evolutionary relationship among the organisms. Two method of dating fossils are relative dating and absolute dating.
- In Relative dating the age of fossils is compared with the other chemicals or something whose age is already known. The index fossils age are known and used to compare the newly discovered fossils.
- Absolute dating uses the radioactive material to known the age of the fossil. The radioactive mineral that are present in rock is used to study the fossil. Carbon -14 dating is used in absolute dating.
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