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Anit [1.1K]
3 years ago
12

Explain how the process of radioactive decay is used to accurately date fossils.

Biology
1 answer:
ASHA 777 [7]3 years ago
7 0

Absolute dating is used to determine a precise age of a rock or fossil through radiometric dating methods. This uses radioactive minerals that occur in rocks and fossils almost like a geological clock. ... Then after another 5,000 years half of the remaining parent isotope will have decayed.

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