In Terms of Dating of Specific Rocks, Structures, or Landscapes

question 96

Multiple Choice

In terms of dating of specific rocks, structures, or landscapes, numerical age refers to

• A) the age of geological features based on isotopic dating techniques.
• B) the approximate age of geological features based on the period or epoch in which they occurred. For instance, noting a feature is from the Cretaceous.
• C) a range of numeric values in which a features was likely formed and based on several lines of evidence, such as paleoclimatic and paleobotanical reconstructions.
• D) the age of one feature with respect to another within a sequence of events and deduced from the positions of rock strata above and below one another.

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