Applications and Investigations in Earth Science (9th Edition)
Applications and Investigations in Earth Science (9th Edition)
9th Edition
ISBN: 9780134746241
Author: Edward J. Tarbuck, Frederick K. Lutgens, Dennis G. Tasa
Publisher: PEARSON
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Let's say that you collected a rock while on spring break. Suppose you want to know the absolute age of a rock sample so you have the isotopic composition of the rock analyzed. Suppose the laboratory report indicates there are 7 times as much daughter isotope as parent isotope in the rock. Given that the half-life of the isotope pair is 280 million years, how old is the rock sample?

 

4500 million years
 

280 million years
 

840 million years
 

1 million years
 

2240 million years
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