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“Radiometric dating (often called radioactive dating) is a technique used to date materials such as rocks or carbon, usually based on a comparison between the observed abundance of a naturally occurring radioactive isotope and its decay products, using known decay rates.[1] The use of radiometric dating was first published in 1907 by Bertram Boltwood[2] and is now the principal source of information about the absolute age of rocks and other geological features, including the age of the Earth itself, and can be used to date a wide range of natural and man-made materials.

Together with stratigraphic principles, radiometric dating methods are used in geochronology to establish the geological time scale.[3] Among the best-known techniques are radiocarbon dating, potassium-argon dating and uranium-lead dating. By allowing the establishment of geological timescales, it provides a significant source of information about the ages of fossils and the deduced rates of evolutionary change. Radiometric dating is also used to date archaeological materials, including ancient artifacts.

Different methods of radiometric dating vary in the timescale over which they are accurate and the materials to which they can be applied.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiometric_dating


28 posted on 08/15/2015 10:46:52 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: ETL
Im familiar with the radiocarbon dating techniques and other dating techniques.....

however you have an extreme anomaly if you're coming up with what appears to be viable tissue samples in what dates as 65 million year old fossils

the only way you're going to resolve that is to throw all assumptions on the table and re-validate all and that including carbon dating techniques... you cant assume infallibility....

32 posted on 08/15/2015 12:57:40 PM PDT by tophat9000 (SCOTUS=News peak)
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