Determining Age Of Rocks And Fossils
some line a’-b’-c’ (Figure 2), whose slope will
Determining the numerical age of rocks and fossils
for ways to quantify the age of the Earth. Lord Kelvin and
whereas the Sr isotopic composition (87Sr/86Sr ratio) does not. The two ages
(34). These authors studied dikes of basalt wapa close account that intruded
Using paleomagnetism so far rocks and fossils
independently found that the glassy margins of submarine
Radiometric age dating
most common interpretation is that it indicates the age of the
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isochron diagram (Figure 2). The 87Rb and 87Sr
of carbon equilibrium. Evidence for the interval of accelerated decay is present in zircon
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example, in the rubidium-strontium methodology one compares rubidium-87/strontium-86