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New Theories / Why new rocks mean they just cooled?
« on: 30/04/2012 12:17:37 »
Hi,
To judge the age of a rock radio decay method is used, look at how much of uranium for instance has decayed, getting the half life of these minerals age of a rock or body of rocks could be guessed.
So it is assumed that when rock formed from liquid magma state to solid rock state, it started decaying.
Problem is heat does not slow down the decay process, thus either the results are all wrong, there is another reason or decay does slow down when temperature is increased.
Any suggestions?
To judge the age of a rock radio decay method is used, look at how much of uranium for instance has decayed, getting the half life of these minerals age of a rock or body of rocks could be guessed.
So it is assumed that when rock formed from liquid magma state to solid rock state, it started decaying.
Problem is heat does not slow down the decay process, thus either the results are all wrong, there is another reason or decay does slow down when temperature is increased.
Any suggestions?