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Earth History
HISTORY
Chapter 15
Scientists who
study fossils are
called
paleontologists.
How do fossils form?
One example of an
index fossil is a trilobite.
Trilobiteswere a group
of hard-shelled animals
whose bodies had three
distinct parts.
They evolved in shallow
seas more than 500
million years ago.
Examples of Index Fossils
What is “B”?
Absolute Age
• Absolute dating is any method of measuring the
age of an event or object in years.
Often impossible to do
Radiometric Dating
• Determining the absolute age of a sample, based
on the ratio of parent material to daughter
material is called radiometric dating.
PPT 4.1.1
Ice Cores
PPT 4.1.1
Dating Ice Cores
PPT 4.1.1
Dating Ice Cores
PPT 4.1.1
What is the Earth’s time scale?
Mosses
Ferns
Mesozoic Era – Middle Life
This era ended with a mass extinction event about 65 million years
ago.
Many groups of animals, including the dinosaurs disappeared suddenly
at this time.