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Evidence About Earth's Past

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This chapter discusses different modes of fossilization, correlation of rock units using relative age dating methods, and absolute age dating of rocks.

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absolute age

alpha particle

amber

beta particle

body fossil

cast

cross-cutting relationships

daughter products

faunal succession

fossil

fossilization

gamma ray

geologic time scale

half-life

ice core

index fossil

isotope

key bed

lateral continuity

living fossil

marine

mass extinction

microfossil

mold

original horizontality

permineralization

radioactive

radioactivity

radiometric dating

relative age

superposition

terrestrial

trace fossil

tree ring

unconformity

uniformitarionism

varve

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