Subj : Re: Old News
To   : JIMMY ANDERSON
From : Mike Powell
Date : Fri Nov 07 2025 13:15:34

RM> It's like the carbon dating, we think of it as being pretty
RM> accurate but you often find that the older the specimen is,
RM> the wider the margin of error, like you start getting the age
RM> of a sample may be plus or minus 5,000 years old when you're
RM> getting close to the maximum it can do, about 50,000 years old..

JA>And of course carbon dating is not historically accurate. Look
  >at the dating of the trees buried during Mount St. Helens.

Did something about the volcanic erruption prevent them from being dated
properly?  I had never heard that before.

Mike

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