The phrase "a reliable date" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a date that is trustworthy or accurate, often in contexts like scheduling or historical references.
Example: "We need to establish a reliable date for the project deadline to ensure everyone is on the same page."
Alternatives: "an accurate date" or "a trustworthy date."
If so, any residue of charcoal should give a reliable date through radiocarbon analysis.
To calculate how fast the molecular clock ticks, the team started with a reliable date from the fossil record: 310 million years ago, when the mammal-like reptiles split from the birdlike reptiles.
For a reliable date, 10 mg of collagen should be obtained representing a >1% yield.
Also, stored samples of settled dust can be used for retrospective contaminant analysis, if the set of samples extends over long periods and they have been collected and stored in the same manner over time, this approach can potentially provide a reliable date record of changes in the analyte concentration of this media.
This method is recognized as a reliable dating method for the Middle Ages in Denmark by several authors [22, 44], but the arm position methodology has not been substantiated by scientific dating methods such as radiocarbon dating, dendrochronology or thermoluminescence.
While any positive selection acting on the region surrounding Yi6AH151 would preclude a reliable dating of the SNPs in the region, the fact that the four high-D SNPs achieved high-D status in all four of the human populations examined (Figure 1B) suggests that these high-D SNPs appeared before the divergence of the human populations.
Although such a shift would still indicate a late Pleistocene dynamics, a reliable dating of these colonization processes would enable us to understand in more detail the evolution of Madagascar's extraordinary biodiversity and the underlying driving forces of diversification.
Ahmad ibn al-Mu'tasim is the son of the 'Abbasid caliph who reigned from 833 842 AD, so this gives us a fairly reliable date for the production of the Theology, or at least for al-Kindi's 'correction' of it.
Even with a known and reliable date of last menstrual period, a certain fraction of women with regular cycles have early or delayed ovulation.
Although the parallel divergence was our only reliable date prior, the use of a single, derived calibration can produce spurious root-node age estimates.
To identify the potential factors involved in recent rabies emergence and provide reliable date as the basis for the development of an appropriate prevention plan, we investigated and analyzed the status and characteristics of human rabies between 1996 and 2008.
