Dating Techniques Question One 1) Pick one of the Relative Dating techniques: De

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Dating Techniques

Question One

1) Pick one of the Relative Dating techniques: Describe the technique.

2) Pick one of the Absolute Dating techniques: Describe the technique.

Question Two: The Oligocene

1) What yeat does the Oligocene encompass?

2) What animals and plants first appeared during the Oligocene?

3) What characterized the mamals during the Oligocene?

Question Three: Autralopithecus Africanus

1) When was this species first named? By whom?

2) Where are some of the sites that A. Afarensis has been found?

3) What are the diagnostic features of A. Afarensis?

Explanation / Answer

(1) biostratigraphy is one of the relative dating technique which is use to compare the fossils from different stratagraphic sequences to judge which layers are older and which are younger.

(2) radiometric dating is one of the absolute dating technique that provides science with a powerful tool for reconstructing our planet

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