It can actually date stone from the surrounding strata layers with very good accuracy. The old saying “you can’t date stone” is no longer true. Now they can, and it is pretty accurate. It can tell when the last time the stone was exposed to sunlight before it was buried. It is rewriting new dates to old finds. Some are younger than claimed, some are even older than they claimed. It goes both ways...
If you believe in gradual-ism. Catastrophe-ism is more believable.