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Bilingual glossary of geology


Relative Age  Age relatif
The age of one geologic event in relation to another, without reference to its absolute age (adapted from Grotzinger et al., 2007).

Themes:
  Dating methods and geological time scale

Related words:
  Relative Dating
  Absolute Age (syn.: Numerical Age)
  Absolute Dating