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How, exactly, is dating done?

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01-05-2004 2:54 PM

I've got a question for you guys that seems to fit into this thread pretty well. Rei posted some specific events in which carbon dating should not be used, specifically volcanoes. My question is how do you know if a sample has been contaminated and therefore is unreliable. How do you know if a volcanic eruption has contaminated a sample that is supposedly 20,000 yrs old?
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