rocks can fall in love?. * the approximate age of a rock layer or fossil determined by the age of...
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Rocks can fall in love?
*Geological Dating
*Relative Dating
*The approximate age of a rock layer or fossil determined by the age of the layers or fossils above or beneath.
*The Law of Superposition
*A layer of sedimentary rock is older than the layer above it
*Exception One
*Rocks may be folded , tilted , or overturned out of position
*Exception Two
*Faults may push rock layers out of position
*3
*Intrusions of magma may cut through rock layers
*4-Unconformity
*Weathering may cause gap in order of layers
*Absolute Age!
*This is the actual age of a substance.
*This is measured by using the half life of radioactive elements.
*Radioactive elements - These are isotopes (varieties of certain elements containing different masses) of elements whose nucleus is decaying (breaking down, releasing energy and particles at a constant rate).
*EX. Uranium 238 Carbon 14
*- The number stands for the mass of the isotope
*- Uranium decays until it reaches lead 206. When an element stops decaying it is considered stable.
*Half Life
*This is the time it takes half the mass of a radioactive isotope to decay into its stable form.