Lecture 9 Absolute Dating of the Earth Major Concepts The discovery of radioactivity in the early 1900s and the recognition that radioactive decay a statistical event occurs at a constant average rate for particular unstable isotopes has provided a means of determining the absolute ages ID: 689190
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