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Author Topic:   Amino Acid Dating
crashfrog
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09-10-2010 7:24 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by faith24
09-10-2010 6:43 PM


Dating isn't done by any single method, but by the confluence of several methods - stratiography, radioisotope ratios in the fossil or matrix, amino acid dating, and so on.
Also the fossil and its matrix will reveal signs of high temperatures, changes in pH, and so on, because those will have effects in addition to simply changing the rate of amino acid isomerization.

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