(June 12, 2013 at 11:40 pm)Godschild Wrote: How can you possibly know when a volcano erupted, you can't date rock and carbon dating is not accurate past 50,000 years.
You are very wrong, I don't think you have actually researched this at all. There is this a thing called the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary, it is a layer of sediement with strange concentrations of elements and other stuff in it like iridium. It is thought that this is the result of the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. The ash cloud and the molten hot rock that fell down the ground after formed a layer. The same concept of looking for layers can be applied when looking for when volcanos erupted.
As for carbon dating, it is all about isotopes and half lives which you probably don't understand. It is very accurate, scientists wouldn't be using it if it wasn't. Even if it wasn't accurate WITHIN 50,000, thats a relatively short time in relation to hundreds of millions of years so it wouldn't matter.
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