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How accurately can we predict the age of a fossil through dating techniques?

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009
lolslavery asked:


How do dating techniques (like carbon 14 and potassium-argon dating) work and how accurate are they?

Also, how much of the evolutionary history can we fill in, and is this based on one or two samples per Era or 100-200 or whatever.

Thanks

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How accurate is half-life dating for determining the age of a sample?

Monday, March 2nd, 2009
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kduenke asked:


By half-life dating, I mean the use of Carbon-14, Uranium-235, Uranium-238, Potassium-40, and other such isotopes and their half-lifes in dating.

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