Which method can be used to find the absolute age of fossils
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Several methods can be used to find the absolute age of fossils, including radiometric dating techniques such as carbon dating, potassium-argon dating, uranium-lead dating, and argon-argon dating. These methods involve measuring the amounts of certain isotopes and their decay products in the fossil to determine how long it has been since the organism died. Other methods, such as dendrochronology (tree-ring dating) and varve dating (counting layers of sediment), can also be used to estimate the age of fossils.