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uranium dating

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noun

  1. a method of dating archaeological or geological specimens by determining the decay activity of the uranium in a given sample.


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Zilhão returned to the cave to try uranium dating.

From Seattle Times Mar. 23, 2018

Dr. Zilhão returned to the cave in order to try uranium dating.

From New York Times Feb. 22, 2018

“I personally would never use uranium series dating of bones alone to assign age, it needs to be supported and consistent with other dating results,” said Dirk Hoffmann, an expert on uranium dating at Leipzig.

From The Guardian Apr. 26, 2017

“At face value, these results are about as good as you can get,” says Alistair Pike, a uranium dating expert at the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom.

From Science Magazine Apr. 26, 2017

But uranium dating of the stalagmites, as well as dates for a mineral cloak that had grown over them and the bone bits, revealed an age the team didn’t expect.

From National Geographic May 25, 2016

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