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Absolute & Relative Dating

Absolute & Relative Dating. What is dating?. Dating is figuring out the age of things, or determining dates. What are the two types of dating?. There are two types of dating: absolute dating and relative dating. Absolute dating is a method of estimating the age of an object in years .

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Absolute & Relative Dating

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  1. Absolute & Relative Dating

  2. What is dating? Dating is figuring out the age of things, or determining dates.

  3. What are the two types of dating? • There are two types of dating: absolute dating and relative dating.

  4. Absolute dating is a method of estimating the age of an object in years. It is sometimes called “numerical” dating. What is absolute dating?

  5. Relative dating is a method of sequencing events in the order they happened. What is relative dating?

  6. When you use relative dating, you use clues to find the sequence, or order, that the events occurred in. • You determine the age of an object relative to other objects or events in a sequence. Which newspaper is probably older?

  7. Example: Layers of Rock • The oldest rocks are in the lowest layer. • The upper layers are younger. • Rocks that cut through the layers are the younger than the layers they cut through.

  8. Example 1 – What would relative or absolute dating tell us about these layers of volcanic ash?

  9. Example 1 – What would relative or absolute dating tell us about these layers of volcanic ash?

  10. Example 2 – Order from Youngest to Oldest

  11. Example 2 – Order from Youngest to Oldest (MJK) = youngest chunk; then G; then B, C, D, A, H, L, I, F

  12. Exit Slip – Order from Youngest to Oldest

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