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DATING METHODS
Types of methods
• Superposition• Relative dating • Absolute dating • Carbon 14 • Potassium-argon or Rubidium-strontium
Absolute dating
What can we date
• Any thing that is composed of organic material
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
Problems with dating in Florida
Resources
http://www.epgeology.com/geology http://paleo.cc/kpaleo/fossdate.htm