The confidence range would, however, be totally wrong for
some other radiocarbon age.
Not exact matches
Just because
radiocarbon dating has flaws does not mean the dozen
other methods for dating objects are automatically bogus which is why the scientific community believes the 4.5 billion year
age of the earth, it's because they did not use just a single method of testing to estimate that
age, they used several different methods which all confirmed the same approximate
age.
«These include the sharp mud - over-peat contacts that are laterally continuous over 5 kilometers, changes in fossil foraminifera assemblages across the buried peat contacts, long - lasting submergence also derived from fossil foraminifera records, and
radiocarbon ages of plant macrofossils taken from buried peat deposits that are consistent with
other southern Cascadia earthquake chronologies derived from buried peat and tsunami deposits.»
In order to determine the
age of the ancient seeds, the researchers split the grains and subjected half of them to
radiocarbon dating while the
other half was used to extract the ancient DNA.
Radiocarbon dating (also referred to as carbon dating or carbon - 14 dating) is a method for determining the
age of an object containing organic material by Dating is a stage of romantic relationships in humans whereby two people meet socially with the aim of each assessing the
other's suitability as a
Archaeologists and
other scientists, who are more interested in the
radiocarbon dating tool per se, quantify the MRE in their study region and apply the correction in the calibration of marine
radiocarbon ages from that particular place.
The
age of the cores was estimated using
radiocarbon dating and
other techniques.