From: George Fosselius (gfosselius@earthlink.net)
Date: Thu May 05 2005 - 22:38:15 PDT
Message-ID: <000f01c551fd$ce227e70$bc09fea9@nicodemus> 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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