Foreign Dates Blog

Private asked:


Can radiometric dating be used to find the absolute age of any material?

List some characteristics that would make some materials unsuitable for this dating method.

David P asked:


There are over fourty methods in use for dating rock samples. Each involves a radioactive isotope, (the parent), and a product, (the daughter) that could easily wash in or out throwing the ratio way off.
Water is constantly seeping through the rocks all the time. That is how water gets under the ground into wells. You cannot find rocks that this does not happen of has not happend to.

TheKing asked:


2.What dating technique is often used by paleontologists to determine the specific age of a fossil?

3.How do scientists use this dating technique to determine that ages of rock or fossils?

plz help me with this asap

moosegoose47 asked:


We have done many tests and it is now fact that carbon 14 dating is able to tell age with a small margin of error. We have even done tests on things that we kill and they have come out to be correct. With evidence, people still insist the earth is 6,000 years old.

ScootRBoy asked:


Even if the cabon dating is disputed, we can still judge the age of the earth to be millions of years old because of the Ice and rock layers.

piepiejenkins asked:


They always say how old something is - 3 million years old but who invented carbon dating and is it really accurate?

southeastside asked:


Yesterday there was news of a 3.3 million year old Australopithecus afarensis fossil from Ethiopia. I’m just curious as to how they ascertain the age. I know it’s not carbon-14 dating, that’s 2 orders of magnitude beyond its range. It’s been a while since I learned about this stuff, so thanks for refreshing my memory.

Dina asked:


Can you explain how seafloor spreading, isotopic dating of rocks, and magnetic pole reversals all give supporting evidence to the plate tectonics theory?