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2) Radiometric dating techniques that allow scientists to determine the absolute age of rocks in years by measuring the decay of radioactive isotopes.
3) How these methods have been used to develop the geologic time scale which divides Earth's history into eons, eras, periods and epochs.
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2. Geologic Time
By examining layers of sedimentary rock, geologists
developed a time scale for dividing up earth
history.
Earlier in the 20th century, radiometric-dating
techniques allowed scientists to put absolute dates
on divisions in the geologic time scale.
In this segment, we will learn how geologists:
• determine the relative ages of rock units,
• determine the divisions of the geologic time scale,
and
• how radiometric techniques can be used to date
some rocks.
3. How do geologists determine how old rocks
are?
1.Relative dating -- determine whether the
rock is older or younger than other rocks
2. Absolute dating -- use radiometric dating
techniques to determine how long ago the
rock formed in the exact number of years
*Not all rocks can be dated absolutely, so
combinations of techniques are used.
5. Principles associated with Relative Dating
The comparing of rock units to decipher their age
relative to one another
• Principle of Superposition
Rock layer above is younger than the ones below it.
(Oldest on bottom, youngest on top)
May not apply to rocks that have been folded (can
get turned upside-down).
• Principle of Original Horizontality
Sedimentary layers are deposited in approximately
horizontal sheets.
If layers are folded, episode of deformation must
have occurred after rocks formed. Age of folding
is younger than youngest deformed rock unit.
6. • Principle of Crosscutting Relationships
Any feature (e.g. fault or intrusion) that cuts
across rocks is younger than the youngest rock
that is cut.
• Principle of Faunal Succession
Organisms have evolved and gone extinct through
time
Fossil content of rock changes in a systematic way,
reflecting evolutionary changes
Fossil content can be used to help determine age
of rock and correlate rocks.
Paraphrased as "Organisms within rock units
change with time".
7. Principle of Lateral Continuity
Suggests that all rock layers are laterally
continuous and may be broken up or displaced
by later events. This can happen when a river
or stream erodes a portion of the rock layers.
This can also happen when faulting occurs.
Principle of Inclusions
States that any rock fragments that are
included in a rock must be older than the rock in
which they are included.
8.
9. Absolute Dating:
• Radiometric Dating Techniques
• Use naturally-occurring radioactive
isotopes
• Isotope -- form of an element that has
additional neutrons
• Radioisotope -- isotope that spontaneously
decays, giving off radiation
Rate of Radioactive Decay
• Radioisotopes decay at a constant rate.
• Rate of decay is measured by half-life
• Half-life -- time it takes for one-half of
the radioactive material to decay.
10. Decay products
• Radioisotopes may decay to form a different
isotope or a stable isotope.
• May be a series of radioactive decays before a
stable isotope is formed.
• Stable isotope is called the "daughter" formed
from decay of radioactive "parent"
Radiometric Age Dating
Radioisotopes are trapped in minerals when they
crystallize.
Radioisotopes decay through time, and stable
isotopes are formed.
Determining the ratio of parent isotope to daughter
product reveals the number of half-lives that has
elapsed.
11. Common isotopes used in age dating
U-Pb -- half-life of U-238 is 4.5 b.y.
K-Ar -- half-life of K-40 is 1.3 b.y.
Rb-Sr -- half-life of Rb-87 is 47 b.y.
Carbon 14 -- half-life of C-14 is 5730
yrs
12. Thus, by using the appropriate radioactive isotope (knowing
its half-life time), and measuring the quantity of the
isotope present in the rock, one can deduce how long it has
taken to decay down to the present amount in the rock.
Example: A rock has 0.5 (one-half) of the original carbon
14 material in it. One can deduce that knowing the half-life
of carbon 14 is 5730 years, the rock must have decayed
(lost) 50% of its original carbon 14 material and is now
5730 years old. In a period of 5730 years from now, the
rock will contain .25 (25%) of its original carbon 14
material.
Theoretically, there will always be some trace of carbon
14 present in the rock…it will never decay totally.
Absolute Dating Example
13.
14. Interpreting the rock record:
Prior to geologic principles, Archbishop James
Ussher calculated the age of the Earth at 6000
years. He noted that calculations were made
based on the books of the Bible (namely Genesis)
and pinpointed the origin of the Earth to be
October 26, 4004 B.C. at 9:00 a.m.
Principle of Uniformitarianism:
James Hutton, late 1700s – (considered to be
"Father of Geology")
Hutton realized that most sedimentary layers were
deposited from gradual, day-to-day processes. He
realized that it took a long time to form these
rocks. This was far different from what others
believed prior to this time.
15. "Present is the key to the past" --
whatever processes are occurring
today (plate tectonics, volcanism,
mountain building, earthquakes,
sedimentation) also occurred in the
past and probably at the same (or
very comparable) rates.
16.
17. Unconformities
Unconformities are surfaces in rock that represent
periods of erosion or non-deposition. In other
words, time has been left out of the physical
geologic rock record.
There are three (3) principal types of
unconformities:
1. Angular Unconformity
Rocks above and below unconformity have
different orientations. Shows that there was a
period of deformation, followed by erosion, and
then renewed deposition. Easiest of the three
types to recognize because the units are at an
angle truncated with the units above them.
18. 2.Nonconformity
Rocks in a horizontal fashion were eroded down to
igneous bedrock material at which time subsequent
deposition of sedimentary layers commenced. Shows
that there was a period of deformation, followed by
erosion, and then renewed deposition. Represents the
greatest amount of time left out of the geologic rock
record.
3.Disconformity
Rocks in a nearly horizontal fashion were eroded and an
erosional profile remains covered by subsequent
sedimentary deposition. Shows that there was a period
of erosion and then renewed deposition in nearly
horizontal layers. Most difficult to recognize because
the units are nearly horizontal and only a small
discontinuous layer can be observed (rubble zone or soil
profile).
20. Geologic Time Scale
Developed in 1800s from relative dating of rocks
More recently, radiometric techniques have allowed us to determine
ages of units in years before present.
Many of the names relate back to localities in England (Ex: Devonian
from Devonshire)
Divisions of Geologic Time Scale:
Eons Eras:
Paleozoic -- Mesozoic -- Cenozoic
Oldest -----------------> Youngest
Periods of the Phanerozoic: Paleozoic Era
Permian (youngest)
Pennsylvanian together with Mississippian are called "Carboniferous" in
Great Britain
Epochs of Tertiary and Quaternary
PaleoceneEoceneOligoceneMiocenePliocenePleistocene
21. The Geologic Time Scale
Origin of the Earth
4.55 Billion years
First multi-
celled
organisms
Major Mass
Extinction
Age of
Dinosaurs
Major Mass
Extinction
Age of Coal
Formation
Age of Fishes
Most recent
“Ice Age”
“Humans”
arrive
Superposition
Original Horizontality
Lateral Continuity
Inclusions
Cross-Cutting Relationships
Atomic number = number of protons
Mass Number = number of protons + number of neutrons
Isotopes = Atoms of the same atomic number but different mass number
Isotopes have different number of neutrons
Ex. Carbon 12, Carbon 13, and Carbon 14
Uranium-Lead Dating
Potassium-Argon
Rubidium-Strontium