(October 3, 2013 at 3:18 pm)John V Wrote: Yes, of course I understand that. Did you look at the chart? it gives sample numbers in the first column. There are differences in ages given by different methods for the same sample.
Yes, that's called an error bar: nobody is claiming that these dating methods are perfectly accurate, but you can see that they group around the same date range. The ones that go noticeably under that are K-Ar readings, which aren't accurate because they record the last heating and impact event of the rocks- taken from a body that takes regular meteorite hits- rather than the actual age of the rock.
As I showed, in my link to you before.
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