Question

Absolute dating can be determined by (Select all that apply). A. Tree ring patterns B. Earth's magnetic field C. A historian's journal D. Coral growth cycle radioactivity E. Photo comparison

Answer 1

The answers that apply are; B, C, and E.

Absolute dating is the ‘exact’ quantification of the age of an artifact or rock or fossil. This is different from relative dating that compares different materials and relatively determined which is older or younger than the other. The use of tree rings and sedimentary rock layers is a form of relative dating.

Answer 2

Absolute dating can be determined by tree ring patterns.

Dendrochronology or tree-ring dating, is the scientific method of dating based on the analysis of patterns of tree rings, also known as growth rings

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