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什么是 Age of the Earth?

Definition 25.7 High School Earth and Space Sciences · 第 25 章 — Radiometric Dating and the Age of the Earth

The age of the Earth is the time since the Earth formed by the accretion of smaller bodies, at the birth of the Solar System. Measured from meteorites by radiometric dating, it is 4.544.54 billion years, to within one per cent.

A fragment of the Canyon Diablo iron meteorite, 2641\, g. Photograph Geoffrey Notkin, CC BY-SA 2.5 (Wikimedia Commons).
A fragment of the Canyon Diablo iron meteorite, 2641 g2641\,\mathrm{g}. Photograph Geoffrey Notkin, CC BY-SA 2.5 (Wikimedia Commons).
Patterson’s lead isochron: the five meteorites lie on one line, and so, nearly, does lead from a modern ocean sediment, standing for the Earth. Source: Patterson (1956), Table 1.
Patterson’s lead isochron: the five meteorites lie on one line, and so, nearly, does lead from a modern ocean sediment, standing for the Earth. Source: Patterson (1956), Table 1.
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