Re: pinhole Rock Dating

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From: George Fosselius (gfosselius@earthlink.net)
Date: Thu May 05 2005 - 22:38:15 PDT


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From: "George Fosselius" <gfosselius@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: pinhole Rock Dating
Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 22:38:15 -0700

If someone could help me with this. I am a little confused about the dating
of rocks. googling potassium argon decay brings up
http://id-archserve.ucsb.edu/Anth3/Courseware/Chronology/09_Potassium_Argon_Dating.html
which explains the principle

http://anthro.palomar.edu/time/time_5.htm
describes several dating methods

more later about the ettiquette about asking a rock for a date, etc.
George Fosselius
who thanks Doris Sloan for great field courses on California geology in the
Sierra


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