Improvements in dating of rocks and fossils

22-Aug-2017 23:06

I thought it would be useful to present an example where the geology is simple, and unsurprisingly, the method does work well, to show the quality of data that would have to be invalidated before a major revision of the geologic time scale could be accepted by conventional scientists.Geochronologists do not claim that radiometric dating is foolproof (no scientific method is), but it does work reliably for most samples.A common form of criticism is to cite geologically complicated situations where the application of radiometric dating is very challenging.

Since the moon and the Earth probably formed at the same time, this supports the current idea of the Earth's age.You can learn more about fossils, dinosaurs, radiometric dating and related topics by reading through the links on the next page.