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resetting of the radiometric clock

Spanish translation: reloj radiométrico


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English term or phrase:radiometric clock
Spanish translation:reloj radiométrico
Entered by: Ana Juliá
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15:28 Mar 24, 2009
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Science - Archaeology / A religious book about the Creation/evolution debate
English term or phrase: resetting of the radiometric clock
Once one admits (as these experts do) that a significant proportion of dates are in error on account of ‘contamination’, material transfer, isotopic equalization (‘***resetting of the radiometric clock***’) and other hypothesized events, then the question arises as to how one differentiates an erroneous date from a true one. The answer to this question is surprising indeed, for it amounts to a calibration of the radiometric clock by the stratigraphical rates [i.e. supposed evolutionary slow rate of formation of the rock strata]. So, far from the radiometric time-scale providing an ‘absolute’ calibration of the geological column, we find the reverse is, in practice, the case.
Ana Juliá
Spain
Local time: 11:04
puesta a cero del reloj barométrico
Explanation:
No estoy completamente seguro, pero hice una búsqueda y encontré que ese instrumento sí se "va a cero" en determinadas circunstancias.

HTH
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Alfredo Gonzalez
Local time: 04:04
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4 +1reanudación del reloj radiométrico
Cristina Heraud-van Tol
3puesta a cero del reloj barométrico
Alfredo Gonzalez


  

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reanudación del reloj radiométrico


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En el caso del reloj radiométrico la constante de desintegración depende de la cantidad de los radionúclidos precursores, puesto que la constante de ...
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reset Noun
reanudación, reset; Synonyms: reboot, rebooting, resetting, resumption

Cristina Heraud-van Tol
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puesta a cero del reloj barométrico


Explanation:
No estoy completamente seguro, pero hice una búsqueda y encontré que ese instrumento sí se "va a cero" en determinadas circunstancias.

HTH


    Reference: http://www.atapuerca.tv/atapuerca/geologia.php
    Reference: http://www.isftic.mepsyd.es/w3/tematicas/evolucion/1999_02/1...
Alfredo Gonzalez
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