MEANING
The science of determining the ages and sequence of rocks, geological events, and materials.
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Determining when rocks and geological events occurred.Use for dating samples or arranging a planet’s geological history in time.
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Geochronology placed the eruption before the station’s oldest records.
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- Base
- geochronology
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