No, you are not about to read an article about that interesting activity when you try to hook up on people or try to know a person better by spending quality time with her or him.

There is another meaning to the word dating and that is what you are about to read here.

Dating is the determination of age of a thing or an object, of a natural occurrence, event or phenomenon or of a series of happenings or events.

There are relative and absolute kinds of dating. In relative dating, the order of sequence of happenings or events is identified or determined. Through this, the investigator can determine whether the object being investigated or probed is older or younger. Or if an event occurred before or after another significant event.

Absolute dating is also referred to as Chronometric dating. Through this, the investigator or prober determines the age of a thing under probe.

Kinds of relative dating

Stratigraphic dating interprets the significance of archaeological or geological strata or layers. The technique began with careful description or drawing of the strata or the archaeological or geological profile.

The data or profile taken from one location is compared against profiles or data from the surroundings. This type of dating is assuming that lower layers in profiles are older or more ancient than upper layers.

Through this techniques, igneous rocks