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Chapter 4
Views of earth's past
Term | Definition |
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Fossils | a trace or the remains of a once-living thing from long ago. |
Original remails | give clues about the past |
ice core | sample that is typically removed from an ice sheet, most commonly from the polar ice caps of Antarctica, Greenland or from high mountain glaciers elsewhere. |
Relative age | dating is the science of determining the relative order of past events |
index fossil | a fossil that is useful for dating and correlating the strata in which it is found. |
absolute age | fossil or geologic event expressed in units of time, such as years. A good example is your birthday. |
half life | the time required for any specified property |
uniformitarianism | the theory that changes in the earth's crust during geological history have resulted from the action of continuous and uniform processes. |
Geological time scale | is a system of chronological measurement that relates stratigraphy to time |