ARKY 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Fluorine, Transitional Fossil, Accelerator Mass Spectrometry
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An absolute date is when we can say something happened. Relative chronology is when you are only dating in reference to something else. The higher the stuff the more recent, the lower the stuff, the older it is. The lower numbers are the most recent time periods. The first layer is always useless, because it comes from every period. The fossil remains of an organism that lived in a particular geologic age, used to identify or dat eat rock or rock layer in which it"s found. Measures nitrogen, fluorine, and uranium content of bones. It is used to determine whether or not bones found together date to the same time. This was a huge hoax, that even today creationists use to. Hinton and dawson claimed that they found the missing link". They found" pieces of a skull that looked like partially money, partially human. This made its way into evolution textbooks, and was taken as truth.