DATING METHODS

Types of methods

• Superposition• Relative dating • Absolute dating • Carbon 14 • Potassium-argon or Rubidium-strontium

Absolute dating

What can we date

• Any thing that is composed of organic material

How we date fossils in Florida

• Biostratigraphy is the process of dating rocks by using the fossils contained within them, by using microfossils and macrofossils.

• Correlation- is demonstrating that a particular horizon in one geological section represents the same period in another horizon

Problems with dating in Florida

Resources

http://www.epgeology.com/geology http://paleo.cc/kpaleo/fossdate.htm