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Earth & Environmental Science · Geology

Geochronology

A topic within Geology, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Earth & Environmental Science.

Reading on Geochronology

2

2 works

Book1913

The Age of the Earth

Arthur Holmes

Uses the newly measured rate of radioactive decay in rocks to argue the Earth is at least several hundred million years old, replacing physicists' much shorter estimates from cooling alone.

link checked 17 Sept 2026
Paper1956

Age of Meteorites and the Earth

Clair C. Patterson

Dates meteorites by lead isotope ratios and shows the Earth shares their age, fixing 4.55 billion years as the age of the solar system.

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