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He was employed at Caltech's Division of Geological & Planetary Sciences at the time of writing the first edition.He is presently employed in the Space & Atmospheric Sciences Group at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Radiation dating definition
Plants absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and animals eat plants.
This means all living things have radioactive carbon-14 in them.
When an organism, eg a tree, dies it stops taking in carbon dioxide.
The amount of carbon-14 in the wood decreases with time as it decays into nitrogen with a half-life of about 5700 years.
Radiometric dating--the process of determining the age of rocks from the decay of their radioactive elements--has been in widespread use for over half a century.
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