Short Answer:
Relative dating is a scientific process of evaluation used to determine the relative order of past events. One does not get a specific estimate of the age of an object from relative dating, but one does get such an estimate of true age from absolute dating. There are several techniques employed in both sets of methods.
Long Answer:
Sciences such as geology, Paleontology and archeology are very interested in identifying the age of objects found and these scientists sometimes use both relative dating or absolute dating to characterize the age of the objects they study.
Before radiometric dating (or other methods like counting tree rings) it was difficult to determine the actual age of an object. Radiometric dating, based on known rates of decay of radioactive isotopes in objects, allows a specific age of an object to be determined to some degree of accuracy.
Relative dating is a scientific process of evaluation used to determine the relative order of past events, but does not determine the absolute age of an object. The circumstances of the object may allow one to say that one object is older than another without being able to assign a particular age to the objects. Very often historical evidence is found in layers and older layers are further down that the top layers.
For example:
If an archaeologist is studying past civilizations, the archaeologist may be able to say that in a particular location the ruins of one civilization were found to have been built on another and so the layers unearthed in an excavation convey the sequence of historical occupations without revealing the actual dates.
Similarly, relative dating is done by paleontologists who find layers of fossils. By deducing which fossils are formed in the sequence of time, the periods when the particular fossilized entities existed can be arranged in order without the actual dates of when the fossils were laid down.
For geologists, it is similar. Looking at how rock formations are structured, a geologist may be able to say which rock was developed in which layer in a particular order but not be able to determine that actual geologic age of the layers.
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They are synonymous to each other. Example: My brother is my nearest kin; My brother is my nearest relative.
A Static location
Words used to describe a relative location are adjectives or adverbs. The word relative is an adjective that describes the noun location.a near relative location (adverb)an very relative location (adverb)a popular relative location (adjective)a distant relative location (adjective)
Monogamous. Joe and Jane are seeing each other exclusively. (They are not dating anyone else at the same time (simultaneously). Someone just removed this question "dating" category. I think it belonged there, in this sense, the sense the questioner meant.
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how does relative dating show the history of a region
The two methods are "RELATIVE DATING" and "ABSOLUTE DATING". :)
relative dating
Yes, Geologists use the relative dating metod on earth.
information is providedv by absolute that cannot be provided by relative dating?
information is providedv by absolute that cannot be provided by relative dating?
Seriation
No. Radioactive dating is an absolute dating tool.
relative dating is when you give an estimate date.
limitation of relative dating is simply your personal limit to how much pussie or dick you can take. ;D
Relative dating is not more accurate than absolute dating. Relative dating will, if done properly, give you an order sequence in time but it will not return any information about when something happened unless there is other information that can be used to establish a time frame.
Relative dating is the science determining the relative order of past events, without necessarily determining their absolute age Absolute dating is the process of determining an approximate computed age in archaeology and geology.