What Is up Relative Dating Activity

A Relative Dating Activity is a hands on exercise which introduces students to the concepts of sequencing and using fossils to establish relative dates for rock strata. … In the second part of the activity, students progress to dating rock layers by sequencing fossils found in the different strata.

What's up a relative age dating activity?

Before geologists can correlate the ages of rocks from different areas, they must first figure out the ages of rocks at a single location. Within a single locality, geologists are able to determine which rock units are the oldest and which are youngest. This type of analysis is called relative age dating.

What is an example of relative age dating?

Relative age dating also means paying attention to crosscutting relationships. Say for example that a volcanic dike, or a fault, cuts across several sedimentary layers, or maybe through another volcanic rock type.