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What is the difference between the relative age and absolute age of rocks?
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Relative age is the age of a rock relative to the rock layers around it, absolute age is a rock's exact age.
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What are the Similar things about absolute and relative age?
They are both types of age used in measuring rocks.
How is earths geolgic history determined?
it is determined by studying the relative and absolute ages of rocks and fossils
Does radioactive dating tell the relative age of rocks?
No. Radioactive dating is an absolute dating tool.
What is the difference between relative ages of and relative position of rocks?
Age is how old the rock is relative to other rocks, position is where the rock is in relation to other rocks. Tectonic motion and other forces can easily turn a portion of the Earths crust upside down resulting in older rock lying above younger layers.
What is relative and absolute age?
Absolute- Actual Age of a rock Relative- The age of something compared to other things Relative age does not tell how old something is but tells us in what order events have happened relative- the age of a rock or fossil compared to the surrounding rocks and fossil
How can the relative and absolute ages of rock be determined?
By comparing the relative percentages of a radioactive (parent) isotope and a stable (daughter) isotope.
How did scientists determine the difference in the age of rocks near mid ocean ridges from those farther away from ridges?
Good question: Geologist use these methods to determine the ages of rocks. The absolute age of the rock and relative age of the rock. Now because the mid ocean ridges are place of divergent where plates move apart, the rock farther away from the ridges are older than the younger ones that are just form close to the ride. This is called relative dating. The absolute dating use Isotopes and radiometric dating meaning they have to have a hand sample to determine this. But I think the best method here for situation like this is the Relative ages of the rocks.
What is the difference between classic rocks and limestone?
classic rocks are not minerals. limestone is
The relative age of a rock is?
The relative age of something is derived from comparing other similar things. This is usually slightly older than the absolute or actual age.
How does the law of superposition help determine the relative age of rocks?
Radiometric dating can give us the absolute age of the rock. Trace fossils and the Law of Superposition can only provide the relative age of the rock. Radiometric dating is far more specific in formation analysis.
Determining the order of events and the relative age of rocks by examining the position of rocks in a sequence is called?
relative dating.Relative dating is used to determine the relative age of rocks.
What causes the difference between breccias and conglomerante?
The difference between breccias and conglomerate is that breccias are angular and conglomerates are smooth. What causes rocks to be smooth is transportation, such as when rocks are in a stream and are worn down. Therefore transportation is what causes the difference between breccias and conglomerates.
