What are fossils describe briefly two methods of determining the age of fossils?
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Answer:
dead remains of past
Explanation:
two method
carbon dating
relative dating
Answer:
• The fossils are the dead and decayed remains of the plants and animals found in the rocks.
• The date of fossils are determined by Absolute Dating method and Relative Dating Method.
Explanation:
• Fossils are defined as the impressions or dead and decayed remains of the plants and animals that existed millions of years ago.
• They are found in rocks, generally in the layers of sedimentary rocks.
• The two most common methods for determining the age of fossils are: Absolute dating method and relative dating method.
• Absolute dating method is recent testing technique in which the amount of radioactive particles in the minerals of the fossils are determined.
• Relative Dating method is the most common out of the two testing techniques.
• In this, the age of the fossil is determined by comparing it with something very old which age has been already determined.
• For example, of the age of a particular stone present at a certain time period is known, paleontologists can compare the fossil with this stone, to find the mineral composition and to compare this composition with the fossil. If the composition is found to be similar, the fossil probably belonged to that age.