radiometric dating
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Led by experts from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, researchers used radiometric dating to determine the age of the volcanic rock.
From BBC • Nov. 16, 2024
After determining the materials in the sample and performing radiometric dating, the researchers concluded that the oldest crystals are about 4.46 billion years old.
From Science Daily • Oct. 23, 2023
We can estimate their age with radiometric dating, and chemical analysis, which gives us a sense of when life began.
From Salon • Mar. 1, 2023
The oft-quoted age of 99 million years comes from radiometric dating of volcanic ash bought from a miner and published in 2012.
From Science Magazine • May 23, 2019
But even with radiometric dating, as decay measurements became known, it would be decades before we got within a billion years or so of Earth’s actual age.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
