Carbon dating matches up well with tree ring dating and sedimentary deposition analysis. The earth may be 4 Billion years old, It may be six, but it is billions of years old.
“Carbon dating matches up well with tree ring dating and sedimentary deposition analysis. The earth may be 4 Billion years old, It may be six, but it is billions of years old.”
You may belief whatever you wish. I prefer facts.
Recent research on seasonal effects on tree rings in other trees in the same genus, the plantation pine Pinus radiata, has revealed that up to five rings per year can be produced and extra rings are often indistinguishable, even under the microscope, from annual rings. Evidence of false rings in any woody tree species would cast doubt on claims that any particular species has never in the past produced false rings. Evidence from within the same genus surely counts much more strongly against such a notion.
Extended tree ring chronology is not an independent confirmation/calibration of carbon dating earlier than historically validated dates, as has been claimed.
Sources from which YOU can learn from:
Yamaguchi, D.K., Interpretation of cross-correlation between tree-ring series. Tree Ring Bulletin 46:47–54, 1986.
Newgrosh, B., Living with radiocarbon dates: a response to Mike Baillie. Journal of the Ancient Chronology Forum 5:59–67, 1992.
Rohl, David, A Test of Time, Arrow Books, London, Appendix C, 1996.