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Age of the Earth



The radiometric date of meteorites can be verified with studies of the Sun. The Sun can be dated using "helioseismic" methods which strongly agree with the radiometric dates found for the oldest meteorites.[16]

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References

  1. ^ Age of the Earth. U.S. Geological Survey (1997). Retrieved on 2006-01-10.
  2. ^ a b Patterson, C., 1956, Age of meteorites and the earth: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 10: 230-237.
  3. ^ a b Boltwood, B.B., 1907, On the ultimate disintegration products of the radio-active elements. Part II. The disintegration products of uranium: American Journal of Science 23: 77–88.
  4. ^ Wilde S.A., Valley J.W., Peck W.H. and Graham C.M., 2001, Evidence from detrital zircons for the existence of continental crust and oceans on the Earth 4.4 Gyr ago. Nature 409: 175–178.
  5. ^ Baker, J., Bizzarro, M, Wittig, N, Connelly, J, Haack, H, 2005, Early planetesimal melting from an age of 4.5662 Gyr for differentiated meteorites. Nature 436: 1127–1131.
  6. ^ Bowring, S.A. and Williams, I.S., 1999. Priscoan (4.00-4.03 Ga) orthogneisses from northwestern Canada: Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 134: 3-16.
  7. ^ England P., Molnar P., Richter P., 2007. John Perry's neglected critique of Kelvin's age for the earth: A missed opportunity in geodynamics. GSA Today v.17 (1), 4–9. doi: 10.1130/GSAT01701A.1
  8. ^ a b c d Dalrymple, G. Brent, 1991, The Age of the Earth, Stanford University Press, pp 14–17, ISBN 0-8047-2331-1
  9. ^ a b England, Philip C.; Molnar, Peter & Richter, Frank M. (2007), “Kelvin, Perry and the Age of the Earth”, American Scientist 95 (4): pp. 342–349 
  10. ^ Joly, J. (1909). Radioactivity and Geology: An Account of the Influence of Radioactive Energy on Terrestrial History, London: Archibald Constable & Co., Ltd., p. 36. ISBN 1402135777.
  11. ^ Rutherford, E. (1906). Radioactivity Transformations, Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 287 pp.; reprinted by Juniper Grove (2007) ISBN 978-1603550543.
  12. ^ (1939) Rutherford: Being the Life and Letters of the Rt. Hon. Lord Rutherford, O.M.. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 
  13. ^ Dalrymple, G. Brent, 1991, The Age of the Earth, Stanford University Press, pp 74, ISBN 0-8047-2331-1
  14. ^ a b Dalrymple, G. Brent, 1991, The Age of the Earth, Stanford University Press, pp 77–78, ISBN 0-8047-2331-1
  15. ^ Dalrymple, G. Brent, 1991, The Age of the Earth, Stanford University Press, pp 310–341, ISBN 0-8047-2331-1
  16. ^ Bonanno, A., H. Schlattl and L. Paterno, (2006) The age of the sun and relativistic corrections in the EOS, Astronomy and Astrophysics [1]
  • Carlson R.W. & Tera F., 1998. Lead-Lead Constraints on the time scale of early planetary differentiation. Origin of Earth and Moon Conference, Lunar and Planetary Society. PDF abstract
  • Powell, James Lawrence, 2001, Mysteries of Terra Firma: the Age and Evolution of the Earth, Simon & Schuster, ISBN 0-684-87282-X
  • Terada, K & Sano Y., 2001. In-situ ion microprobe U-Pb dating of phosphates in H-chondrites. in Proceedings of the 11th Annual W.M. Goldschmidt Conference, Lunar and Planetary Society. PDF abstract
  • Valley, John W., William H. Peck, Elizabeth M. King (1999) Zircons Are Forever, The Outcrop for 1999, University of Wisconsin-Madison Wgeology.wisc.edu – Evidence from detrital zircons for the existence of continental crust and oceans on the Earth 4.4 Gyr ago Accessed Jan. 10, 2006
  • Wilde S.A., Valley J.W., Peck W.H. and Graham C.M. (2001) Evidence from detrital zircons for the existence of continental crust and oceans on the Earth 4.4 Gyr ago. Nature, v. 409, pp. 175–178.
  • Wyche, S., D. R. Nelson and A. Riganti (2004) 4350–3130 Ma detrital zircons in the Southern Cross Granite–Greenstone Terrane, Western Australia: implications for the early evolution of the Yilgarn Craton, Australian Journal of Earth Sciences Volume 51 Zircon ages from W. Australia – Abstract Accessed Jan. 10, 2006

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  • Baadsgaard, H.; Lerbekmo, J.F.; Wijbrans, J.R., 1993. Multimethod radiometric age for a bentonite near the top of the Baculites reesidei Zone of southwestern Saskatchewan (Campanian-Maastrichtian stage boundary?). Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v.30, p.769–775.
  • Baadsgaard, H. and Lerbekmo, J.F., 1988. A radiometric age for the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary based on K-Ar, Rb-Sr, and U-Pb ages of bentonites from Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Montana. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v.25, p.1088–1097.
  • Eberth, D.A. and Braman, D., 1990. Stratigraphy, sedimentology, and vertebrate paleontology of the Judith River Formation (Campanian) near Muddy Lake, west-central Saskatchewan. Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology, v.38, no.4, p.387–406.
  • Goodwin, M.B. and Deino, A.L., 1989. The first radiometric ages from the Judith River Formation (Upper Cretaceous), Hill County, Montana. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v.26, p.1384–1391.
  • Gradstein, F. M.; Agterberg, F.P.; Ogg, J.G.; Hardenbol, J.; van Veen, P.; Thierry, J. and Zehui Huang., 1995. A Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous time scale. IN: Bergren, W. A. ; Kent, D.V.; Aubry, M-P. and Hardenbol, J. (eds.), Geochronology, Time Scales, and Global Stratigraphic Correlation. Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, Special Publication No. 54, p.95–126.
  • Harland, W.B., Cox, A.V.; Llewellyn, P.G.; Pickton, C.A.G.; Smith, A.G.; and Walters, R., 1982. A Geologic Time Scale: 1982 edition. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 131p.
  • Harland, W.B.; Armstrong, R.L.; Cox, A.V.; Craig, L.E.; Smith, A.G.; Smith, D.G., 1990. A Geologic Time Scale, 1989 edition. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, p.1–263. ISBN 0-521-38765-5
  • Harper, C.W., Jr., 1980. Relative age inference in paleontology. Lethaia, v.13, p.239–248.
  • Lubenow, M.L., 1992. Bones of Contention: A Creationist Assessment of Human Fossils. Baker Book House: Grand Rapids.
  • Obradovich, J.D., 1993. A Cretaceous time scale. IN: Caldwell, W.G.E. and Kauffman, E.G. (eds.). Evolution of the Western Interior Basin. Geological Association of Canada, Special Paper 39, p.379–396.
  • Palmer, Allison R. (compiler), 1983. The Decade of North American Geology 1983 Geologic Time Scale. Geology, v.11, p.503–504. September 12, 2004.




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