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In terms of geology, Relative Age is the age of an object in relation to the ages of other objects. Layers of rock, called strata, show the order of events that took place in the past and Absolute Age is the numerical age of an object or event.

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What is the difference between the relative age and absolute age of rocks?

Relative age is the age of a rock relative to the rock layers around it, absolute age is a rock's exact age.


What is the difference of absolute age and relative age?

In the absolute age, the value will be exact and direct but in the relative age you will compare the rock with other feature.


What is the similarity between absolute and relative dating?

both have methods of descovering the age of an object or event.


What is the relationship between relative age and absolute age?

Absolute age dating defines an exact date -1875. Relative dating gives a relative answer -10 years after the end of the civil war. Your welcome for helping you with Biology Homework.... *Cheaters* Geology homework. Actually. -.- Jeesh, people these days.


What is the difference between relative and absolute age?

Relative age does not assign a number to an age, but is only used to say, for example, whether rock A is older than rock B. Absolute age actually assigns a number, for example "this shale is about 300 million years old."


Is a fossil a relative or absolute time?

It depends. If you are comparing it to something then it is relative. But if your give it a specific age/year, then it is absolute. ex. Relative: The fossil is younger than the shale. Absolute: The fossils is 1000 years old. *note; even if the age is wrong it would still be classified as absolute time


What is the age of an object in relation to the ages of other objects called?

Relative age.


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


What are the Similar things about absolute and relative age?

They are both types of age used in measuring rocks.


The half- life of an element is important for determining the of a rock a decomposition rate b relative age c absolute age d mineral makeup?

Absolute Age


What is a non-examples for relative age?

An example of a non-example for relative age would be an absolute age. Relative age involves determining the sequence of events or objects compared to one another without assigning specific numerical ages. In contrast, absolute age provides a specific numerical age through methods like radiometric dating.


What is the similarity between absolute ans relative dating?

It is the method of descovering the methodof the age of something... I think it is the age of the fossil u are trying to find out