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To: SunkenCiv

"Crater Lake caldera formed 6,845 carbon-14 yers BP."

I think the date you are using might be under the old carbon-14 datings, not the newer callibration which has pushed these dates back a number of hundred years earlier. Haraldur Sigurdsson in his "Encyclopedia of Volcanoes," 2000, says that Crater Lake is about 7,500 year old, and that is the age that I was using when I stated my idea in the previous comment. Now I will look at the link you so kindly provided.


86 posted on 12/11/2006 2:45:25 AM PST by gleeaikin
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To: gleeaikin

When that term (carbon years) is used, it refers to the so-called uncalibrated dating; the so-called calibrated scale uses wiggle matching to try to correspond to established sequences in (for example) tree rings.


88 posted on 12/11/2006 8:09:02 AM PST by SunkenCiv (I last updated my profile on Thursday, November 16, 2006 https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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