What is absolute dating and relative dating?

Geologists often need to know the age of material that they find. They use absolute dating methods, sometimes called numerical dating, to give rocks an actual date, or date range, in number of years. This is different to relative dating, which only puts geological events in time order.

geologists use absolute dating to know the age of material that they find, and relative dating is which only puts the geological events in time order.

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