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Explain why both relative dating and absolute dating are necessary to develop the fossil record.

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Relative dating is the science describing the comparative order of past events, without essentially describing their absolute age

Only igneous and some metamorphic rocks may be absolutely dated.

Absolute dating is the process of determining an estimated computed age in archaeology and geology

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