Scientists have leveraged the 2,000-year-old destruction of Pompeii to significantly sharpen argon-argon dating, one of geology’s most critical techniques for measuring Earth’s…
An eyewitness account written nearly two millennia ago by the Roman author Pliny the Younger has provided researchers with a fixed chronological benchmark to sharpen one of geology’s most important dating techniques. According to a study published in Science Advances, scientists from the Berkeley Geochronology Center, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of … Read more