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DATING METHODS

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DATING METHODS

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Types of methods

• Superposition• Relative dating • Absolute dating • Carbon 14 • Potassium-argon or Rubidium-strontium

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Absolute dating

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What can we date

• Any thing that is composed of organic material

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How we date fossils in Florida

• Biostratigraphy is the process of dating rocks by using the fossils contained within them, by using microfossils and macrofossils.

• Correlation- is demonstrating that a particular horizon in one geological section represents the same period in another horizon

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Problems with dating in Florida

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Resources

http://www.epgeology.com/geology http://paleo.cc/kpaleo/fossdate.htm