How Do Geologists Date Rocks? Radiometric Dating How do geologists date rocks? radiometric dating! A commonly used radiometric dating technique relies on the breakdown of potassium ( 40 P) to argon ( 40 Ar). http://www.ulo.ucl.ac.uk/~diploma/year_one/usgs/radiometric_dating/radiom.html
Extractions: How do geologists date rocks? Radiometric dating! Radioactive elements were incorporated into the Earth when the Solar System formed. All rocks and minerals contain tiny amounts of these radioactive elements. Radioactive elements are unstable; they breakdown spontaneously into more stable atoms over time, a process known as radioactive decay. Radioactive decay occurs at a constant rate, specific to each radioactive isotope. Since the 1950s, geologists have used radioactive elements as natural "clocks" for determining numerical ages of certain types of rocks. Radiometric clocks are "set" when each rock forms. "Forms" means the moment an igneous rock solidifies from magma, a sedimentary rock layer is deposited, or a rock heated by metamorphism cools off. It's this resetting process that gives us the ability to date rocks that formed at different times in earth history.
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Radiometric Dating RADIOMETRIC AND CHEMICAL DATING TECHNIQUES. example Bull Lake Glaciation 150,000±8300 yr (Sharp et al., 2003) Berkeley radiometric dating RADIOCARBON DATING. http://www.geo.arizona.edu/palynology/geos462/10radiometric.html
Extractions: I had always sustained that God made the laws of nature regular, constant, and fairly accessible to mankind. This is what I believe scripture teaches us. Romans 1:20 states that "For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities-his eternal power and divine nature- have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse." If I was to be consistent with this view I needed to adjust my thinking on the age of the Earth and our Universe. I considered the idea that maybe the decay rates of nuclides had changed in the past or that maybe God made everything looking old but after considering all of the evidence that did not seem reasonable. Not to mention that when I looked at the results from dating methods from the field of astronomy all I found was consistency with the dates yielded from the methods of radiometric dating.
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Extractions: I'm in the midst of the evolution/creation debate, and one question has gone unanwered. How can rocks on earth be different ages. If the earth is 4 billion years old, all the rocks should be 4 billion years old. If it's 10,000 years old, they should all be 10,000 years old. I can't see why rocks at the bottom of the geologic column would be older, radiometrically. How can one rock be older than another unless it came from outside our atmosphere? The molten iron and rock at the center of the earth should be the same age as the crustal rock, no? Thanks for your help, I'm confused.
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Extractions: Geological Time Geologic Time Scale Plate Tectonics Radiometric Dating Deep Time ... Geological History of New Zealand Radiometric Dating Radiometric measurements of time Since the early twentieth century scientists have found ways to accurately measure geological time. The discovery of radioactivity in uranium by the French physicist, Henri Becquerel , in 1896 paved the way of measuring absolute time. Shortly after Becquerel's find, Marie Curie , a French chemist, isolated another highly radioactive element, radium . The realisation that radioactive materials emit rays indicated a constant change of those materials from one element to another. The New Zealand physicist Ernest Rutherford , suggested in 1905 that the exact age of a rock could be measured by means of radioactivity. For the first time he was able to exactly measure the age of a uranium mineral. When Rutherford announced his findings it soon became clear that Earth is millions of years old.
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Extractions: RADIOMETRIC DATING Link between radiometric dating and lightspeed Oklo What about the RATE group? Isnt dendrochronology accurate for checking radiocarbon dating? ... Change in Decay Rates The link between radiometric dating and lightspeed Question: Is there a direct link between radiometric dating and the speed of light? Setterfield: Yes, there is. 'c', the speed of light, is in the numerator of every reduced radio decay rate equation. Question: Could you please explain to me in simple terms why the rate of atomic decay depends upon the speed of light? Setterfield: The simplest way is to say that the equations describing atomic decay contain a number of atomic constants, including the speed of light. If energy is conserved in a varying light speed process, these constants are changing so there is effectively a light speed term in the numerator of each equation. Thus, the higher the light speed, the faster the decay rate, in the same proportion. Question: Is there a direct link between c-dependent radioactive decay rates and geological processes? Setterfield: Yes there is. Importantly, the original short half-life elements were also a contributor and they have gone now. This also made for rapid heating of the earth interior (cool to start with). Furthermore, there is evidence that the main radioactive elements were concentrated in a layer low in the mantle and came to the surface progressively after that.
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Young-Earth Creationism The average YEC thinks that radiometric dating is the only form of dating which supports an ancient Earth (thus revealing ignorance of both science and history http://www.stardestroyer.net/Creationism/YoungEarth/Hartman-2.shtml
Extractions: Introduction Conspiracy of Silence Radiometric Dating Unsolved Mysteries ... Conclusion The average YEC thinks that radiometric dating is the only form of dating which supports an ancient Earth (thus revealing ignorance of both science and history, since old Earth theories can be traced back more than two thousand years , and age estimates had already hit tens of millions of years in the late 18th century, many decades before Darwin published "The Origin of Species"). But since they labour under this scientifically and historically ignorant assumption, they think they can topple the entire weight of old Earth evidence if they can punch a hole in radiometric dating. Naturally, no effort is spared in this endeavour. They "know" that potassium, Carbon-14, or whatever element they're testing decays at a certain invariable rate except they don't know that at all. Decay rates can change, and they don't know if the rate changed or not. This is one of the oldest YEC attacks on radiometric dating: he thinks radioactive "decay rates can change", and that this therefore invalidates the concept of radiometric dating.
Radiometric Dating radiometric dating. AND THE. FANTASY WORLD. OF. WHAT IS THE TRUE AGE OF THE EARTH? radiometric dating AND THE AGE OF THE EARTH. ALL IS NOT WHAT IT SEEMS! http://www.enlightened.org.uk/ev04-radiometric.html
Extractions: RADIOMETRIC DATING AND THE FANTASY WORLD OF EVOLUTIONISTS. HOW EVOLUTIONISTS TAKE US BACK MILLIONS OF YEARS INTO THEIR FANTASY WORLD WHAT IS THE TRUE AGE OF THE EARTH? RADIOMETRIC DATING AND THE AGE OF THE EARTH. ALL IS NOT WHAT IT SEEMS! How many times do you hear on television or read in the newspapers that dinosaurs died out 60 million years ago? That this particular rock is 20 millions years old? You can be forgiven for believing them because they sound so convincing. They talk as if it was a proven fact - but it isn't! Quite the reverse. We'll talk about dinosaurs later but for now let's look at the methods of dating. WE CAN CALCULATE THE EARTH'S AGE BY THE URANIUM-THORIUM-LEAD METHOD. According to Doctor White the radio isotopes of uranium and thorium, found in some of the earth's rocks decay and they emit alpha particles, that are helium-4 nuclei. As these slow down they pick up electrons to form helium-4 atoms that find their way into the earth's atmosphere. This rate of helium-4 released into the atmosphere has been calculated by Henry Faul in his book; "Nuclear Geology". He says it has taken just over 11,000 years for this amount of helium-4 to be produced from the decay of the uranium and thorium that is in the earth's crust. If the earth was created with some helium-4 already present (a reasonable assumption!) then the age of the earth will be much less - agreed? WHAT THE INBALANCE OF RADIO CARBON TELLS US ABOUT THE AGE OF THE EARTH.
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Extractions: Sorry, but you're not likely to find that special someone here, because this is an interactive exercise about Geologic Time . Here you'll learn how geologists and archeologists determine the ages of rocks and ancient artifacts. Please be patient as Java applets and associated images load into your computer. Your comments are welcome. Email to: document.write('' + 'virtualdating@risner.org' + ''); Update: some of the Java applets have been replaced with Flash movies using capabilities recently added to Flash. These will require the Flash 7 Player to use. Click on the "System and technical requirements" link if you need to get the new Flash 7 Player. Virtual Dating contains two options as well as a demonstration version. Last update: March, 2004
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Extractions: The time in parenthesis is the ``half-life'' of the specified process. The half-life represents the average time an atom will survive in its original state. Like popcorn , some atoms decay right away, while others survive much longer than the average. If you start with a pure sample of one of the above unstable elements, after the time in parenthesis has elapsed, half of that sample will have decayed. After one more half life, of the original sample will have decayed (i.e. half of the remaining half). How do you determine how much lead was in the rock originally? A rock which is half uranium and half lead, may be very young and just had a large amount of lead to start. Lead comes in two forms one with 206 protons and neutrons, one with 204. Uranium exculsively decays to the form with 206 protons and neutrons.
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Extractions: Radioactive Isotopes - the "Clocks in Rocks" Numerical and Relative Ages for Rocks A numerical (or "absolute") age is a specific number of years, like 150 million years ago. A relative age simply states whether one rock formation is older or younger than another formation. The Geologic Time Scale was originally laid out using relative dating principles. Numerical dating , the focus of this exercise, takes advantage of the "clocks in rocks" - radioactive isotopes ("parents") that spontaneously decay to form new isotopes ("daughters") while releasing energy. For example, decay of the parent isotope Rb-87 (Rubidium) produces a stable daughter isotope, Sr-87 (Strontium), while releasing a beta particle (an electron from the nucleus). ("87" is the atomic mass number = protons + neutrons.) Numerical ages have been added to the Geologic Time Scale since the advent of radioactive age-dating techniques. Many minerals contain radioactive isotopes. In theory, the age of any of these minerals can be determined by