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GEOLOGIC TIME (AGE) RELATIVE Comparison of Features relative to one another ABSOLUTE Establish or determine numerical dates for Features. LAWS (PRINCIPALS) OF DETERMINING RELATIVE AGE ORIGINAL HORIZONTALITY LATERAL CONTINUITY SUPERPOSITION UNCONFORMITIES (WITH 3 ABOVE) INCLUSIONS
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GEOLOGIC TIME (AGE) • RELATIVE • Comparison of Features relative to one another • ABSOLUTE • Establish or determine numerical dates for Features
LAWS (PRINCIPALS) OF DETERMINING RELATIVE AGE • ORIGINAL HORIZONTALITY • LATERAL CONTINUITY • SUPERPOSITION • UNCONFORMITIES (WITH 3 ABOVE) • INCLUSIONS • Erosional (“float”) • Igneous Intrusions • CROSS-CUTTING FEATURES • Faults • Unconformities • Igneous Intrusions
D C B A ORIGINAL HORIZONTALITY & SUPERPOSITION
C B A ORIGINAL HORIZONTALITY, SUPERPOSITION & INCLUSIONS
F E D C B A ORIGINAL HORIZONTALITY, SUPERPOSITION, UNCONFORMITIES, & INCLUSIONS
H G F E D C B A ORIGINAL HORIZONTALITY, SUPERPOSITION, UNCONFORMITIES, CROSS-CUTTING FEATURES, & INCLUSIONS
C B A CROSS-CUTTING FEATURES
F E D C B A ORIGINAL HORIZONTALITY, SUPERPOSITION, UNCONFORMITIES, CROSS-CUTTING FEATURES, & INCLUSIONS
F E D C B A ORIGINAL HORIZONTALITY, SUPERPOSITION, UNCONFORMITIES, CROSS-CUTTING FEATURES, & INCLUSIONS
PUZZLE: • Look at overall picture and see where the oldest units are. • Work your way “upward” from oldest to youngest looking at the relational features using the “principals”
Carbon-14; Half-life = 5,730 Years; 12.5% of C-14 Left. # Half-lifes? Age? 3 Half-lives: 3 x 5,730 years = 17,190 years
ACTIVITIES • 8.2: A, B • 8.4: A, B, C, D(1), E • 8.5: A