Earth
Across
- 2. determining an actual age for an object or a date of occurence for an event.
- 3. sample that is typically removed from an ice sheet
- 5. the time taken for radioactivity of a specified isotope to fall to half its original value.
- 8. the underlying geological material in which soil horizons form.
- 10. emitting or relating to the emission of ionizing radiation or particles.
- 11. is a method for determining the age of an object containing organic material by using the properties of radiocarbon.
- 12. states that layers of sediment are originally deposited horizontally under the action of gravity .
- 13. the branch of science concerned with fossil animals and plants.
Down
- 1. States layers of rocks above are younger than the ones they are on top of.
- 4. is a process that occurs at mid-ocean ridges, where new oceanic crust is formed through volcanic activity and then gradually moves away from the ridge.
- 6. Lived in a particular geologic age, and can be used to identify or date the rock or rock layer in which it is found.
- 7. ordering events or objects in time without assigning actual ages or dates.
- 9. A crack in the earths crust.