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 ABSOLUTE AND
RELATIVE DATING
 RELATIVE ABSOLUTE AGE
DATE / AGE
Refers to the age of
Order on which events years.
occurred.
PRINCIPLE USE IN
DETERMINING
RELATIVE AGE
 PRINCIPLE OF ORIGINAL
HORIZONTALITY
The principle of
original horizontality
is based on the
observation that
sediment usually
accumulates in
horizontal layers.
Tectonic forces tilted
or folded rocks into
an angle after it was
formed.
 PRINCIPLE OF SUPER
POSITION
The principle of original
horizontality is based on
the observation that
sediment usually
accumulates in
horizontal layers.
Tectonic forces tilted or
folded rocks into an
angle after it was
formed.
 PRINCIPLE OF
CROSSCUTTING
The principle of crosscutting
relationships is based on the
fact that rocks must exist
before anything else
happened like intrusions or
dike- cutting across rocks.
In figure 5, the cut rock
layers are older than the
rock that cuts across them.
 PRINCIPLE OF
FAUNAL SUCCESSION
The principle of faunal succession
states that species succeeded one
another through time in a definite
and recognizable order and that the
relative ages of sedimentary rocks
can be therefore recognized from
their fossils. The absence or the
presence may be used to give a
relative age of the sedimentary
where they are found.

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 PRINCIPLE OF
LITERAL CONTINUITY
The principle of lateral
continuity explained that
layers of sediment are
continuous. Layers with
same rocks but separated
by a valley or erosion are
initially continuous.

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 ABSOLUTE AGE
Is the use of records of radioactive delay in
rocks.Radioactive decay happens when unstable
isotopes or elements decompose spontaneously .
 ISOTOPES

atoms of the same element (same number of proton)

but with different number of neutrons.
 HALF-LIFE
Is the time taken for theradioactivity of a specified
isotopeto turn to half of its original value.
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IZYLLE MARASIGAN
LESLIE CUMACERA
AERON JAMES YACON