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3 years ago

How does rocks and fossils determine Earth's age?

Physics

2 answers:

Fantom [35]3 years ago

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Explanation:

rock and fossils are made by layers of dirt, sand,organic matter that has beem compressed over thousands,if not millions of years.

some scientists use this layering to determine how old the earth is.

its kind of like looking at the rings of a tree to see how old it is.

the scientists look at each layer of the rock or fossil and use what they already know about when this type of soil or organic matter existed and try to piece together the past

liq [111]3 years ago

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Answer:

There are two main ways to determine the age of a rock, these are Relative dating and Absolute dating. Relative dating is used to determine the relative order of past events by comparing the age of one object to another.

Explanation:

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Part b)

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Part d)

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Part e)

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Question 1

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Question 2

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Question 3

The principle of uniformitarianism was one of the disruptive proposition in earth science.

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Where the sediments are disturbed, the formation might be overturned and this principle might be difficult to apply.

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