RE: How can we know how old fossils are?
April 30, 2019 at 2:38 pm
(This post was last modified: April 30, 2019 at 2:39 pm by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
(April 30, 2019 at 2:35 pm)jamesmadison Wrote: Ok but even radioactive decay, can you honestly explain that? If we don't know for sure the atmospheric conditions could that of affected the process of aging for the rocks? different climates and such, if not just let me know, I'm not a fucking geologist, just very curious.
No, climate conditions don't affect radioactive rates of decay. An isotope in the Sahara will decay at the same rate as the same isotope in Antarctica. Or on Mars.
If you're all that curious, try searching the web.
Boru
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