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RELATIVE TIME
VS.
PLACES EVENTS IN A
SEQUENCE BUT DOES
NOT IDENTIFY THEIR
ACTUAL DATE OF
OCCURRENCE
ABSOLUTE TIME
IDENTIFIES THE ACTUAL
DATES OF GEOLOGIC
EVENTS
EXAMPLE
A LIST IN
CHRONOLOGICAL
ORDER OF WHAT YOU
HAVE DONE TODAY UP
UNTIL THIS TIME
FAULTING
L
B
I
G
F
M
C
D
H
J
MATCHING OF ROCK
LAYERS THAT CAN BE SEEN
AT THE EARTHS SURFACE,
OVER A LARGE AREA
AN OUTCROP IS EXPOSED
ROCK LAYERS AT THE
EARTHS SURFACE
A KEY BED IS A THIN, WIDESPREAD LAYER, USUALLY OF
VOLCANIC ASH, THAT CAN BE USED TO CORRELATE AN
EXACT POINT OF TIME
INDEX FOSSIL
EASILY IDENTIFIABLE
SHORT-LIVED
WIDESPREAD OCCURRENCE
RADIOACTIVE DATING
USED TO DATE FAR BACK IN TIME. CERTAIN ROCKS CONTAIN
RADIOACTIVE ISOTOPES
RADIOACTIVE ISOTOPES ARE ATOMS OF
ELEMENTS THAT GIVE OFF RADIATION FROM
THEIR NUCLEI
RADIOACTIVE DECAY IS THE PROCESS BY
WHICH A RADIOACTIVE ISOTOPE CHANGES
INTO A NEW STABLE ELEMENT
ORDOVICIAN
ALL LIFE STILL IN THE
OCEANS
THE END OF THE PERIOD IS MARKED BY THE TACONIC
OROGENY WHEN A PIECE OF AFRICA BROKE OFF AND
COLLIDED WITH N. AMERICA. THIS PRODUCED THE
TACONIC MOUNTAINS
SILURIAN
THE EURYPTERIDS APPEARED DURING THIS
PERIOD. THEY ARE THE NYS FOSSIL. THEY WERE
CALLED SEA SCORPIONS AND ARE THOUGHT TO
BE DISTANT COUSINS OF THE TRILOBITE.
LAND ANIMALS ALSO APPEARED. DISTANT
COUSINS OF SPIDERS, MILLIPEDES, AND
SCORPIONS
CLIMATE BECAME VERY DRY IN N. AMERICA
AND SHALLOW SEAS THAT COVERED THE
CONTINENT EVAPORATED. (ROCK SALT BEDS IN
WESTERN NY)
DEVONIAN
PERIOD
AGE OF THE FISHES
FISH WERE JAWLESS AND
WERE COVERED WITH
HEAVY PLATES.
POOR SWIMMERS THAT
REACHED UP TO 9 METERS
IN LENGTH