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Q: When can scientists not use a radiometric dating to correctly date a fossil?
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What radiometric dating tell us?

It tells us the absolute age of something, It is used when scientists want to see how old a fossil is.


How do you tell how old a fossil is by the rock layer?

by relative dating or radiometric dating


If I wanted to know how old a fossil was which type of dating would I be using?

Radiometric is the type of dating used to determine how old a fossil is.


How can someone find the absolute age of a fossil?

By using radiometric or radiocarbon dating.


What to methods are used to determine the age of a rock or fossil?

There are two methods used to determine the age of a rock or fossil. The first is carbon dating and the second is radiometric dating.


How scientists estimate the age in years of a fossil?

Scientists can use carbon dating to determine the age of a fossil.


What type of fossil dating uses half life to determine age?

Radiocarbon dating is a technique that uses the decay of carbon-14.


What is the measuring of the ratio of unstable and stable atoms in a rock sample to determine the age of the fossil it contains?

Radiometric dating.


What isotopes is most useful for dating plant and animal remains?

CARBON DATING The most common fossil dating techniques are radiometric dating techniques. Radiometric dating uses knowledge of the decay rates of unstable ( radioactive ) nuclei to determine, by comparison with the proportion of stable nuclei in a fossil sample, the date of the introduction of the radioactive material into the live organism, especially if the isotope was ingested while the organism was alive.


What lead scientists to believe that life began some 4.5 billion years ago?

By looking at the fossil records, scientists were able to say approximately when life began. They used radiometric dating of rock layers as one method. See links below for further information:


What do scientists use to determine a fossil's relative age?

Carbon14 dating (isotopic dating)


How would you find the age of a fossil?

You can use relative dating which is looking at the rocks around it, or you can use radiometric dating, which compares the amount of radioactive element with the amount of nonradioactive element in the rock.