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How do we tell time?

For more information on Radiometric Dating and the creation of the Geologic Timescale:

  • Understanding Evolution's overview of the history of radiometric dating

  • Understanding Evolution's overview of using radiometric dating to tell how old a fossil is 

  • And still more from Understanding Evolution!

  • A more detailed and complex account of radioactive decay and radiometric dating

  • The website of International Commission on Stratigraphy, which decides on the official geologic time scale. 

   

 

 

 

 

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