Sentence examples for determining the ages of from inspiring English sources

The fire history of large terrestrial ecosystems such as Yellowstone National Park can be obtained from historical records or by determining the ages of the resident trees.

It has been instrumental, for example, in determining the ages of the stripes of alternating normally and reversely magnetized volcanic rocks that parallel the axis of the mid-oceanic ridges.

Therefore, determining the ages of the marine tephras in Japan Sea sediments is crucial to paleoceanographic studies of the Japan Sea.

Determining the ages of photogeologic units with crater size-frequency measurements requires two procedures: (1) measuring the surface area of the unit and (2) measuring primary crater diameters within the unit (Hiesinger et al., 2000).

When asked why he was no longer certain, Mitch explained that he had begun to question whether or not Genesis had been intended to be read literally and that he had become "more open-minded about radiometric dating methods" for determining the ages of rocks, and therefore Earth.

One means of determining the age of a painting is to examine it under black light.

Many of these photographs were taken with color filters, which can help in determining the age of a surface feature.

Mr. Kant said that the onus of determining the age of an employee is on the employers.

The Dominican Republic seems to have more trouble determining the age of its baseball players than scientists do carbon-dating prehistoric insects.

Rhenium osmium dating, method of determining the age of the important ore mineral molybdenite; the method is based upon the radioactive decay of rhenium-187 to osmium-187.

Determining the age of the victim and the perpetrator is fraught with problems.