Relative dating puts rocks and events in order, from the oldest to the youngest, without saying how many years ago they happened: this rock is older than that one. An absolute age is an age given as a number of years, for example “ million years”.
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什么是 Relative dating and absolute age?
又称: relative dating · absolute age