Asked by scooby91320002

How do fossils help in determining the relative age of strata? Are the three different localities around the same relative age?
Answered by drwls
What three localities? Is this question associated with a field trip or lab you recently took?
Answered by scooby91320002
No I didn't take no lab or field trip
Answered by Ms. Sue
You didn't answer Dr. WLS's question. What three localities?
Answered by scooby91320002
Review Figure 3.6 on p. 68 of the text. How do fossils help in determining the relative age of strata? Are the three different localities around the same relative age? Explain your response.

this is what i said I am sure there is more to it

The deeper the layer, the older the objects that are found in the layer will be. Strata are the layers of the earth. These layers would be "read" from bottom to top or oldest to most recent.
Answered by Ms. Sue
We do not have your text -- so we had no idea what you were talking about.

You have a good start on the answer. But you still haven't answered whether these localities are the same relative age.
Answered by scooby91320002
i dunno what 3 localities?
Answered by Ms. Sue
Probably the three localities in the figure on page 68.
Answered by scooby91320002
i don't know what localities are?
Answered by Ms. Sue
Then it's time to look the word up in a dictionary.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/locality
Answered by scooby91320002
does it sound ok what i have so far?
Answered by DrBob222
What you have written sounds ok. Now to know if the localities are the same, you compare the types of fossils in the three locations. The same fossils in the same strata would mean the age is the same.