Sentence examples for absolute ages from inspiring English sources

With the advent of radiometric dating methods, absolute ages for various periods can be determined.

Episodes of global volcanic activity, rifting of continents, folding, and metamorphism are defined by absolute ages.

While absolute ages require expensive, complex analytical equipment, relative ages can be deduced from simple visual observations.

I won't reveal the ending, but I will tell you it takes absolute ages to get there.

Without absolute ages, investigators could only determine which fossil organisms lived at the same time and the relative order of their appearance in the correlated sedimentary rock record.

It is also important to note that relative ages are inherently more precise, since two or more units deposited minutes or years apart would have identical absolute ages but precisely defined relative ages.

Precise isotopic ages are called absolute ages, since they date the timing of events not relative to each other but as the time elapsed between a rock-forming event and the present.

Blimey both national anthems took an absolute age.

But once they had the rocks in hand, they could determine their absolute age in years.

Doug H Sanders. Keegan Bradley takes an absolute age to play his second shot.

5.25pm: Graeme McDowell is taking an absolute age to sink a par putt on the 11th.