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They study how deeply buried the fossils are. Older ones are deeper. They sometimes use radio is tope dating or match the rock's magnetic field against the historical fluctuations of the Earth's magnetic poles. Also they use index fossils line bugs & ferns found nearby whose dates are known from when those creatures lived.