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Radioactive carbon dating

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01-02-2010 5:00 AM

Well you can date in-situ rocks relative to others by a few basic principles such as fossil evidence and sequence stratigraphy (if one rock is 'cut' by another then the it is older).
If you have an entire sequence of rocks right up to the present time the you could use deposition rates to calculate age but I wouldn't rely on it.
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