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To: vannrox
Maybe off topic, but how did they age the rocks on the moon. Too old for C14, no fossils for geo column dating. How'd they get the age?
8 posted on 03/25/2002 2:58:23 PM PST by T. P. Pole
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To: T. P. Pole
In an oak cask. Makes good Bourbon.
20 posted on 03/25/2002 4:52:36 PM PST by Arkie2
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There are a number of other radioactive isotopes with longer half-lives that can be used. For example, K-40 has a half-life of 1.25 billion yrs and can be used for rocks with ages 100,000-4.6 billion yrs.
24 posted on 03/25/2002 5:30:06 PM PST by NoAction
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Radiometric Dating A Christian Perspective

There are only a few Moon rocks available. They've been dated by using lead and tungsten decays. (These two measurements agree.)

89 posted on 05/03/2005 9:34:23 AM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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