The isochron method relies on selecting minerals from different regions of a particular rock formation.  The different minerals are all...

Radioactive decay occurs at an exponential rate, meaning that it can be described in terms of a half life. After one half live, half of...

I have selected twenty isotopes of interest. These are isotopes whose half-lives have been determined to lie within a specific range, and...

Key points: Atoms that have the same number of protons but different numbers of neutrons are known as isotopes. Isotopes have different...

AMS dating involves accelerating the ions to extraordinarily high kinetic energies followed by mass analysis. Although more expensive...

The radiocarbon method was developed by a team of scientists led by the late Professor Willard F. Libby of the University of Chicago in...