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geochronology
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geochronology

Branch of geology that deals with the dating of rocks, minerals, and fossils in order to create an accurate and precise geological history of the Earth. The geological time scale is a result of these studies. It puts stratigraphic units in chronological order and assigns actual dates, in millions of years, to those units.



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Topics that will be covered," the course description continued, "are the age of the earth, a worldwide flood, dinosaurs, pre-human fossils, dating methods, DNA, radioisotopes, and geological evidence.
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