Introducing Earth Chapter Nine: Earth and Time 9.1 Relative Dating 9.2 Geologic Time.

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Introducing Earth

Chapter Nine: Earth and Time 9.1 Relative Dating 9.2 Geologic Time

9.1 The beginnings of geology In 1666, Nicholas Steno, a Danish anatomist, studied a shark’s head and noticed that the shark’s teeth resembled mysterious stones called “tonguestones”.

9.1 Evidence from Rock Steno theorized that tonguestones looked like shark’s teeth because they actually were shark’s teeth that had been buried and became fossils.

9.1 What is relative dating? Steno’s principles are used by geologists to determine the age of fossils and rocks in a process called relative dating. Relative dating is a method of sequencing events in the order they happened.

9.1 What is relative dating? James Hutton (1726–1797) showed how processes today might explain what happened a long time ago. For example, grooves left behind by flowing rainwater helped explain the formation of the Grand Canyon from the Colorado River.

9.1 Superposition Steno’s ideas for relative dating include superposition, original horizontality, and lateral continuity. Superposition states that the bottom layer of sedimentary rock is older than the layer on top because the bottom layer formed first.

Rock layers may bend or shift and are found standing vertically, or tilted, or rolled into curves.

9.1 Lateral continuity Horizontal layers of rock are continuous. By comparing rock layers in the Grand Canyon, geologists have found that the layers on one side of the canyon match up with the layers on the other side.

9.1 More relative dating The idea of cross-cutting relationships states that a vein of rock that cuts across a rock’s layers is younger than the layers. The middle and top layers formed after the bottom layer but before the vein.

9.1 Faunal succession Faunal succession means that fossils can be used to identify the relative age of the layers of a rock formation. The organisms found in the top layers appeared after the organisms found in the layers below them.

9.1 Fossils and Earth’s changing surface Most of the land on Earth was part of a large landmass called Pangaea about 250 millions of years ago.

9.1 Fossils and Earth’s changing surface Fossils provide evidence for how Earth’s surface has changed over time. Scientists map fossil locations. Understanding Earth’s past helps explain how similar plants and animals ended up in different locations.