Question

Absolute dating tells you _____. when an event occurred in years the relative age of different rock layers if one species of animal evolved before another the sequence of a series of events

Answer 1

Absolute dating tells you exactly when an event usually geological occurred and it can be done by carbon 14 dating for present to about 40,000 yrs ago and before that in rocks it can go back at least 200 million years. It helps to determine the age relationships between geological events like sedimentation and intrusion and orebody ages and also the age of fossils.

Answer 2

The correct answer is - when an event occurred in years.

The absolute dating tells us exactly when something happened in years. By using the carbon 14 technique it can be very accurate to about 40,000 years ago, and also by studying the rocks, it can be accurate to an incredible 200 million years backwards. This is of great importance for the fields of geology and paleontology, as well as all the sciences that use the information's from them for their own studies. This method allows the scientists to be able to put things into the right order as to when they happened in the geological history, thus creating a very accurate picture of the order of the events that took place in the past of our planet.