radiometric dating

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Led by experts from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, researchers used radiometric dating to determine the age of the volcanic rock.

From BBC

The breakthrough in dating the fossils was due to the work of the lead author of the paper, Pembrokeshire-born PhD student Tony Clarke, who has been working on radiometric dating at Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia.

From BBC

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

"Radiometric dating works a little bit like an hourglass," said the Field Museum's Philipp Heck, the study's senior author.

From Science Daily

"In an hourglass, sand flows from one glass bulb to another, with the passage of time indicated by the accumulation of sand in the lower bulb. Radiometric dating works similarly by counting the number of parent atoms and the number of daughter atoms they have transformed to. The passage of time can then be calculated because the transformation rate is known."

From Science Daily