radiometric datingとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

radiometric dating (複数形 radiometric datings)

1. Synonym of radioactive dating
   • 1984, Don L. Eicher, Arcie Lee McAlester, Marcia L. Rottman, The History of the Earth's Crust, Prentice-Hall, page 16,

     Perhaps the most significant achievement of radiometric dating over the past two decades has been to provide an absolute calibration, in years, for the traditional sedimentary time scale.

   • 1999, Stanley Chernicoff, Haydn A. Fox, Essentials of Geology, Houghton Mifflin, page 150,

     Radiometric dating of Moon rocks and meteorites has enabled us to determine that the age of the Earth is approximately 4.6 billion years.

   • 2001, Mary Turton (translator), Maria Eugenia Aubet, The Phoenicians and the West, 2nd Edition, Cambridge University Press, page 379,

     For various reasons, we have discarded the radiometric datings obtained in minero-metallurgical regions of Huelva province: […] .

   • 2002, Encyclopedia of Physical Science and Technology, Volume 6, Academic Press, page 639,

     The first is radiometric dating of meteorites and rocks from the surface of the moon.