Archaeological 'Time Machine' Greatly Improves Accuracy of Early Radiocarbon
Dating
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100211111549.htm
For the people who like to date things
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glenster
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Farkel
glenster,
:It has taken nearly 30 years for researchers to produce a calibration curve this far back in time.
That comment stopped me. By the way the sentence is worded, one cannot tell whether it is referring to carbon dating or other dating methods. If it is referring to all dating methods, it is totally wrong.
Argon dating can measure back tens of millions of years.
Farkel
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glenster
...radiocarbon dating -- the method used by archaeologists and geoscientists
to establish the age of carbon-based materials.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100211111549.htmArgon–argon dating...is used to date geological events, particularly the
eruption and cooling of igneous rocks and minerals.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argon%E2%80%93argon_dating -
Leolaia
No, this article is strictly about the calibration curve for 14C dating. Calibrated dates started in the 1970s in response to dendrochronological studies. Now with data from ice cores and other kinds of evidence of atmospheric carbon, the curve can be extended throughout the whole decay cycle.
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This is stupid. Everyone knows the universe is only 6000 years old!
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teel
Thanks, but I'd rather like to date women instead... if I weren't married.