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7.7 How is the absolute age of a rock determined?
- Validating the method
- Each isotope system has its own time range of usefulness depending on the magnitude of the half-life.
- 14C is useful for dating relatively young samples
- 14C useful to around 50,000 years
- An early test of the validity of radioactive-isotope dating used the 14C method to calculate ages for materials