radiometric dating

plural radiometric datings

1. Synonym of radioactive dating.

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

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

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   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.

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

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

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

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

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

   Synonyms: radioactive dating