You are digging a hole in your backyard when you see a piece of fossilized bone in the dirt. How could you prove the age of the

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Bumek [7]

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You are digging a hole in your backyard when you see a piece of fossilized bone in the dirt. How could you prove the age of the

fossil? Design a procedure for determining the relative and absolute age of the bone.

Biology

2 answers:

NikAS [45] · Answer 1 · 2022-03-01T08:48:27+03:00

To figure this out you have to look at the clues given the fossil it self it has many layers or solid Rock on it that is proven to go from youngest to oldest so with that being said you can design a procedure like "Rock identification" based on what type of rock that's on the first to last just identify it and know that based on the rock is how deep it has been in the ground or it's time period
Hope this helps :D

nirvana33 [79] · Answer 2 · 2022-03-01T10:37:53+03:00

You can determine the age of a rock by looking how rough the rocks are... so lets say you fine a rock that has many points, sides, and rough edges which means the rock is actually pretty young so it was recently created and most likely a sedimentary rock. But if you find a rock that has smooth sides and no rough edges which would mean the rock is pretty old rocks could go up to thousands and even million's of years old and if a rock is that smooth it's certainly old. This is actually called: "rock identification" which is really easy to learn.

Hope this helps!