Welcome to the online supplement for the Laboratory Manual in Physical Geology.
The weblinks included in this chapter were chosen to help you with the following learning objectives:
- Learn and be able to apply techniques for relative
age dating of Earth materials and events.
- Use fossils to date some rock bodies and infer
some of Earth’s history.
- Learn and be able to apply techniques for absolute
age dating of Earth materials and events.
- Be able to apply relative and absolute dating
techniques to analyze two field sites and infer
their geologic history.
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Be able to apply relative dating techniques to
analyze logs of five wells and correlate among
them.
