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- From: lmh@iago.caltech.edu (Henling, Lawrence M.)
- Newsgroups: talk.origins
- Subject: Re: Dating Methods
- Date: 3 Jan 1993 12:08 PDT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology
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- In article <C0AGFH.E7I@iat.holonet.net>, remmons@iat.holonet.net (Robert Emmons) writes...
- >I'm interested in a layman's guide to determining the age of fossils,
- >rocks, artifacts, etc. I've heard about dating via carbon and other
- >radio active decay methods, as well as tree ring counting, but I'd like
- >to see a more detailed explaination. Are there any layman's books on
- >the subject?
- >
- A good book on using radiometric dating to determine the age of the earth
- (nothing on carbon) is:
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- The Age of the Earth by G Brent Dalrymple Stanford Press 1991 474pp
-
- It is a very well written book which can be read (in reasonably self-contained
- chapters) by non-scientists. It explains the major methods used and how reliable
- they are as well as applying them to earth rocks and meterorites and lunar
- samples. (I imagine it would get a strong 'thumbs down' from ted.)
-
- larry henling lmh@shakes.caltech.edu
-