radiometric dating
English
Noun
radiometric dating (plural radiometric datings)
- Synonym of radioactive dating
- 1984, Don L. Eicher, Arcie Lee McAlester, Marcia L. Rottman, The History of the Earth's Crust, Prentice-Hall, page 16,
- Perhaps the most significant achievement of radiometric dating over the past two decades has been to provide an absolute calibration, in years, for the traditional sedimentary time scale.
- 1999, Stanley Chernicoff, Haydn A. Fox, Essentials of Geology, Houghton Mifflin, page 150,
- Radiometric dating of Moon rocks and meteorites has enabled us to determine that the age of the Earth is approximately 4.6 billion years.
- 2001, Maria Eugenia Aubet, Mary Turton, transl., The Phoenicians and the West, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, page 379:
- For various reasons, we have discarded the radiometric datings obtained in minero-metallurgical regions of Huelva province: […] .
- 2002, Encyclopedia of Physical Science and Technology, Volume 6, Academic Press, page 639:
- The first is radiometric dating of meteorites and rocks from the surface of the moon.
- 1984, Don L. Eicher, Arcie Lee McAlester, Marcia L. Rottman, The History of the Earth's Crust, Prentice-Hall, page 16,
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