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- adverb In a
radiometric manner - adverb By means of
radiometry
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Examples
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At first the Chinese radiometrically dated the unknown alloy of the object back greater than six billion years a geological impossibility.
Day by Day Armageddon: Beyond Exile J.L. Bourne 2010
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At first the Chinese radiometrically dated the unknown alloy of the object back greater than six billion years a geological impossibility.
Day by Day Armageddon: Beyond Exile J.L. Bourne 2010
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The submarine is equipped to drill down for rock samples, through the superficial sediments of the sea bottom down to the volcanic rocks of the lithosphere itself, and it also has an onboard laboratory for dating rock samples radiometrically see Chapter 4.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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The submarine is equipped to drill down for rock samples, through the superficial sediments of the sea bottom down to the volcanic rocks of the lithosphere itself, and it also has an onboard laboratory for dating rock samples radiometrically see Chapter 4.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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These samples along with meteorites that originated from the moon and even one from Mars can be radiometrically dated, and together they paint a picture a cataclysmic time in the history of our solar system.
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With the Grand Canyon, we know quite a bit about erosion, and deposition, we can map the pattern of erosion and deposition, we can see the places where lava flowed into the canyon and formed (radiometrically datable) dikes, we can go core the sediments deposited below the canyon and figure out what source material eroded when, etc.
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Those “flood deposited layers” are sorted radiometrically.
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Some of these telltale layers can be dated radiometrically and compared to corresponding layers in continental rocks, thus cross-checking both geological events and the dates assigned to them.
The Source John Clayton Nils Jansma 2001
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These similar layers become correlation “markers” that can be radiometrically dated.
The Source John Clayton Nils Jansma 2001
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Additionally, datable deep sea and ice cores cross-check with one another and agree with corresponding radiometrically determined dates to within acceptable accuracy limits.
The Source John Clayton Nils Jansma 2001
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