What is the difference between relative and absolute dating?

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infamous_mr.famous asked:


What is the difference between relative and absolute dating?

2 comments:

  1. stage_poi, 3. August 2008, 16:27

    Relative dating is dating things based on the things that are around them- judging that a certain object is older, younger, or about the same age as another given object. Absolute dating gives a specific age or range of ages that it is (ex- finding a fossil and finding it to be 50,000-70,000 years old).

     
  2. ifanorangeiscalledanorange?, 4. August 2008, 23:38

    relative dating is mostly a mountain folk thing