Opps I meant C14. Here is the processes; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiocarbon_dating
On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 11:57 AM, CB Sites <[email protected]> wrote: > Just to add a side note: CO2 from fossil fuels is also effecting carbon > dating, as a lot of the C13 has already decayed in fossil fuels. In fact > that is one way we know that the CO2 causing global warming is from man > made sources. > > > > On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Daniel Rocha <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Jojo, my dear alien, you cannot do carbon dating of anything past ~1950 >> because there is a lot of contamination due C13 from nuclear explosions. >> >> The mammoth ages seem OK, it is usual to find parts of different animals >> together. >> >> You don't take the age of non living things with carbon dating. Carbon >> dating don't go to 300ka, there isn't calibration for that. An age like >> this mean you have just measured background contamination. >> >> Old Amerindian remains, specially during the 80's, were involved in many >> controversies, since the mainstream academic view was that the Clovis >> culture had to be the oldest, and any pre Clovis was considered outright >> bullshit. So, there was a lot of nitpicking to lower the age of these >> outliers. >> >> >> -- >> Daniel Rocha - RJ >> [email protected] >> > >
