SumNemo
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Message 71 of 74 (108185)
05-14-2004 11:32 AM
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Radiocarbon dating is the more popular and widely publicized form of radiometric dating. However, it has many downsides, as mentioned many times above. It is only accurate up to a point, for example. However, radiometric dating is not limited to just Carbon-14. The radioactive rate of decay of, say, uranite, the main ore of uranium, is known and immutable. This knowledge, combined with the theories of Nicolas Steno, who proposed the principles of superposition, original horizontality, lateral continuity, and cross-cutting relationships, can tell us the ages of fossilized organisms found within a section of rock, as well as the age of the rock itself.
Replies to this message: | | Message 72 by AdminNosy, posted 05-14-2004 11:44 AM | | SumNemo has replied |
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