Not exact matches
The laboratory techniques for
dating almost anything
by radioactive decay, whether a hominid fossil or a coral horn, are very similar.
But uranium - lead
dating, in which researchers estimate the age of a rock
by comparing its concentrations of
radioactive uranium and the lead it
decays into, tells a different story.
Radiometric or
radioactive dating steps jump to
radioactive decay radiometric
dating formula example of a
radioactive uranium lead
dating decay chain from lead - radiometric or
radioactive dating steps step in such a chain is characterized
by a distinct half - life.
The even older
dating suggested
by Flowers is the result of looking at the
radioactive decay of uranium and thorium into helium in the mineral group apatite.