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Often they use the type of fossils or animals they find in the rocks to determine what age the rocks were in. Consider the late cretacous period, I just got back from a trip in Chaco Cultural Historic Park in New Mexico. I was doing my own geologic research there and the rocks had plenty of striations but when I looked in the rocks and saw shrimp, sponges, and aquatic plant fossils. You think in what era was this geologic area covered by water and would contain these types of animals, probably the Cretacous era because most the mid US was covered by water and a vast sea at this time.

Or Geologists take rocks back to a lab and do Radioactive Isotopic Decay and try to measure the age of the rock.

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