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By using fossils and matching layers rock layers can be correlated to each other.?
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Why can relative dating be used only to estimate the age of a fossil?
by comparing its placement with that of fossils in other layers of rock
What rocks created when pieces of other rocks plants and animal matter or dissolved minerals collect to form layers?
fossils
How can fossils help geologists match rock layers?
If the fossils that the scientists find are very evolutionarily similar, for example, if they are the same species or genus, then that means that the sedimentary rock layers have some correlation to each other since the two extinct animals that turned into the fossils most likely lived during the same time period. This hints that the two rock layers were both exposed to the atmosphere during the same time period.
What is the principal of paleontological identity?
The Principle of Paleontological Identity is the theory that the layers of sedimentary rocks around the world can be dated by the fossils which they contain. Based on this theory, two layers having the same fossils are regarded as having the same age. This principle is based on the existence of stratigraphic fossils. It is taken in theory to make it possible to correlate sedimentary sequences in distant areas from each other.
What is the method of determining whether a fossil is older or younger than other fossils found in the many layers of sedimentary rock is called what?
relative dating
How might rock layers be correlated with other rock layers in different areas?
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How does relative dating enable palenteologists to estimate a fossils age?
by comparing its placement with that of fossils in other layers of rock
How do fossils that formed in different rock layers provide evidence-of evolution?
Fossils' existence confirms that species are not fixed but can evolve into other species over time
How do fossils that form in different rock layers provide evidence of evolution?
Fossils' existence confirms that species are not fixed but can evolve into other species over time
Why can relative dating be used only to estimate the age of a fossil?
by comparing its placement with that of fossils in other layers of rock
One way to correlate similar rock layers?
Correlating rock layers is comparing two rock layers to each other. I hope that this helps :) Actually its the matching up of rocks of the same age from place to place is called correlation of the rock layers. I hope that this helps :)
What rocks created when pieces of other rocks plants and animal matter or dissolved minerals collect to form layers?
fossils
How can fossils help geologists match rock layers?
If the fossils that the scientists find are very evolutionarily similar, for example, if they are the same species or genus, then that means that the sedimentary rock layers have some correlation to each other since the two extinct animals that turned into the fossils most likely lived during the same time period. This hints that the two rock layers were both exposed to the atmosphere during the same time period.
How scientists determine the age of a fossil?
The dating of fossils was originally done by their placement in a geologic column of rock strata. Because of the Law of Superposition, the deeper the stratum, the older it is (in an undisturbed body of rock or sediment). Fossils which were evident in a particular stratum, but missing from other strata were noted as "index" fossils. The presence of these fossils indicated the age of the stratum relative to other layers. The layers of stratum were placed in a geologic column, subdivided, and assigned names based on the presence of different types of fossil organisms.This is the basis of "relative dating" of rock layers and fossils, a dating technique that was in effect until the advent of radiometric techniques in the twentieth century.
What does the rock cycle have anything to do with fossils?
Sedimentary rocks are rocks that are formed by layers of different things compacting very tightly. These layers can have a lot of different things in them, like fossils. So, sedimentary rocks are partially made up of fossils.
What is the principal of paleontological identity?
The Principle of Paleontological Identity is the theory that the layers of sedimentary rocks around the world can be dated by the fossils which they contain. Based on this theory, two layers having the same fossils are regarded as having the same age. This principle is based on the existence of stratigraphic fossils. It is taken in theory to make it possible to correlate sedimentary sequences in distant areas from each other.
What is the method of determining whether a fossil is older or younger than other fossils found in the many layers of sedimentary rock is called what?
relative dating
