Relative dating is used to determine a fossils approximate age by comparing it to similar rocks and fossils of known ages. Absolute dating is used to determine a precise age of a fossil by using radiometric dating to measure the decay of isotopes, either within the fossil or more often the rocks associated with it.

What do you understand under relative and absolute dating give an example of each?

Example of relative dating is an absolute dating is used to meet a historical remaining while relative dating to meet eligible single man. Absolute methods today can be dated in time order in the fossils and absolute dating is dated in the other layers. Posts about the relative geologic age and the rocks.