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Scientists find oldest piece of Earth
February 24, 2014 at 11:43 am
A piece of zircon found on a sheep ranch in western Australia has been dated as some 4.4 billion years old - almost as old as the 4.5 billion-year-old planet itself.
The tiny crystal was subjected to Uranium-Lead dating to determine its age. Then, to avoid the risk of a misleading date, the findings were confirmed via a seperate, independent dating method "known as atom-probe tomography that was able to identify individual atoms of lead in the crystal and determine their mass, and confirmed that the zircon was indeed 4.4 billion years old. "
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnew...Earth.html
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RE: Scientists find oldest piece of Earth
February 24, 2014 at 12:23 pm
Cue some creatard shrieking about 6,000 years in 5...4...3...2....1..........
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RE: Scientists find oldest piece of Earth
February 24, 2014 at 12:29 pm
Pmsl!!
Well, it would be wouldn't it!
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RE: Scientists find oldest piece of Earth
February 24, 2014 at 12:40 pm
So?
At the beginning of time God had a girlfriend and being a bit of a tight-arse he didn't buy her a real diamond.
No biggie (the Zircon that is).
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RE: Scientists find oldest piece of Earth
February 24, 2014 at 1:15 pm
Yeah. But carbon dating isn't reliable, so...
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RE: Scientists find oldest piece of Earth
February 24, 2014 at 2:05 pm
God put it there to test us.
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RE: Scientists find oldest piece of Earth
February 24, 2014 at 2:29 pm
I can. I was there and I didn't see you.
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