Across
- 3. The time requiierd for half of a sample of a radioactive isotope to breakdown
- 9. An ordered arrangement of rock layers that is based on the relative ages of the rock
- 12. A principle that geologic processes that occurred in the past can be explained by current geologic processes.
- 14. Any method of measuring the age of an event or object in years
- 15. A method of determining the absolute age of a object
Down
- 1. The standerd method used to divide earths long natrual history
- 2. The weather conditions in a area over a long period of time.
- 4. The trace or remains of remains of an organism that lived long ago.
- 5. A principle that states that younger rocks lie above older rocks if the layer has not been disterberd
- 6. The process in which a radioactive isotope tends to break down into a stable isotope to the same ele
- 7. Any method of determining whether an event or object is old or young.
- 8. A principle that states that younger rocks lie above older rocks if the layer has not been disterberd
- 10. A fosslized structure, such as footprint or a coprolite.
- 11. The scientific study of the origin of earth
- 13. A long cyllinder of ice obtained from drilling through ice caps or ice sheets.
