radiometric dating
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When that lunar magma ocean cooled, that's when the zircon crystals could finally form, locking in chemical signatures that the Field Museum scientists can now measure with radiometric dating technology.
From Salon • Oct. 23, 2023
After determining the materials in the sample and performing radiometric dating, the researchers concluded that the oldest crystals are about 4.46 billion years old.
From Science Daily • Oct. 23, 2023
This estimate is based on evidence from radiometric dating of meteorite material together with other substrate material from Earth and the moon.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
The oft-quoted age of 99 million years comes from radiometric dating of volcanic ash bought from a miner and published in 2012.
From Science Magazine • May 23, 2019
But even with radiometric dating, as decay measurements became known, it would be decades before we got within a billion years or so of Earth’s actual age.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
