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Bilingual glossary of geology


Relative Dating  Datation relative
Dating method that determines age in terms of a chronologic sequence of geologic events. No actual dates are given, but rather, a geologic event's age is given in relation to others.

Themes:
  Dating methods and geological time scale

Related words:
  Absolute Dating
  Lateral Continuity (Principle of)
  Original Horizontality (Principle of)
  Inclusion (Principle of)
  Cross-cutting Relationship (Principle of)
  Faunal Succession (Principle of)
  Superposition (Principle of)


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