Posted on 09/29/2020 3:54:54 PM PDT by Candor7
..............After drilling into the stalagmites and pulling out cylinders of rock, the team could see an obvious transition between two layers. On one side were old minerals that were part of the original stalagmites; on the other were newer layers that had been laid down after the fragments were broken off by the cave’s former users. By measuring uranium levels on either side of the divide, the team could accurately tell when each stalagmite had been snapped off for construction.
Their date? 176,500 years ago, give or take a few millennia.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
I just knew someone would bring up that factual technicality. And since I am a teetotaller I have no idea what Coors is like except its importance to people in Smokey and the Bandit.
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