Compare and contrast relative versus absolute dating as they are used to study rocks.

Absolute dating involves determining the exact age of a fossil or rock using radiometric methods while relative dating involves comparing which rock/fossil is younger or older than the other without necessarily determining the exact age. Relative dating is significant in determining geological events order.

'Relative Dating' and 'Absolute Dating' in the discipline of Petrology (study of rocks) can be compared on three different parameters, viz. method, procedure and merits and demerits.

Method:

Procedure:

Merits and demerits:

d. stage 4

explanation:

the existence of some kind of demographic transition is widely accepted in the social sciences because of the well-established historical correlation linking dropping fertility to social and economic development.[1] scholars debate whether industrialization and higher incomes lead to lower population, or whether lower populations lead to industrialization and higher incomes. scholars also debate to what extent various proposed and sometimes inter-related factors such as higher per capita income,lower mortality, old-age security, and rise of demand for human capital are involved.[2]