radiometric dating

English

Noun

radiometric dating (plural radiometric datings)

1. Synonym of radioactive dating
   • 1984, Don L. Eicher, Arcie Lee McAlester, Marcia L. Rottman, The History of the Earth's Crust, Prentice-Hall, page 16:

     Perhaps the most significant achievement of radiometric dating over the past two decades has been to provide an absolute calibration, in years, for the traditional sedimentary time scale.

   • 1999, Stanley Chernicoff, Haydn A. Fox, Essentials of Geology, Houghton Mifflin, page 150:

     Radiometric dating of Moon rocks and meteorites has enabled us to determine that the age of the Earth is approximately 4.6 billion years.

   • 2001, Maria Eugenia Aubet, translated by Mary Turton, The Phoenicians and the West, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, page 379:

     For various reasons, we have discarded the radiometric datings obtained in minero-metallurgical regions of Huelva province: […] .

   • 2002, Encyclopedia of Physical Science and Technology, Volume 6, Academic Press, page 639:

     The first is radiometric dating of meteorites and rocks from the surface of the moon.