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List the various methods to estimate the age of fossils.

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Scientists combine several well- tested techniques to find out the age of fossils. The most important are Relative Dating, in which fossils and layers of rock are placed in order from older to younger, and Radiometric Dating, which allows the actual ages of certain types of rock to be calculated.

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