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THE AGE OF THE EARTH

Hey… Just as we celebrate our birthdays to commemorate the day we were born, has it ever occurred to you to ponder on the age of the earth? Don’t you think that there was a day (way back) when the earth was formed?
Don’t get it twisted!!! This is no myth. It is a reality. It is REAL!!!





The Earth is approximately 4.6 billion years old!!! Sounds absurd???
Well, this figure did not come as a result of fiction or imagination – but by radiometric dating in the early 20th century. Lead in uranium-rich minerals when dated by early scientists,  were able to discover that they were billions of years old.
Another pointer to this is that small crystals of Zircon obtained from Jack Hills, Western Australia when dated, was around 4.4 billion years old.
One may ask: “How is this possible”?
Rocks are aggregate of minerals. Some of these minerals have radioactive elements like Uranium and Thorium. In the process of their decay (radioactive decay), other elements are formed which are stable.
The age of a rock (which has a radioactive element) can be calculated from the information gotten from the measurement of the concentration of the stable end product of the decay of that radioactive element and its initial concentration (i.e. the initial concentration of the decaying element) provided that its half life is known.

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  1. Unknown14 June 2018 at 02:39

    What is the formula for calculating half-life?

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  2. Unknown14 June 2018 at 04:47

    Sometimes don't you feel like going back in time and seeing how the earth used to be

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    1. Chima Chima15 June 2018 at 01:59

      Yea. I feel. Infact the beauty of geology is that the present is the key to the past

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  3. Unknown19 June 2018 at 08:12

    You are doing great Chima. Well done.

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  4. BENEDICT10 July 2018 at 02:35

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  5. Unknown11 August 2018 at 07:32

    This is amazing. I love reading these kind of things :D Great post :)

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  6. MOBILE 9917 March 2019 at 12:41

    Such a informative post, thanks to admin for sharing this useful post keep going on��..

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