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November 26, 2012

How Do We Know Earth Is 4.5 Billion Years Old?

Dan Vergano, USA Today


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Football is fun for bickering, but for really wrecking family dinners over the Thanksgiving holidays, try tackling the week's political argument over the age of the Earth.

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TAGGED: radiometric dating, lead, meteorites, Earth

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