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Applications and Investigations in Earth Science (9th Edition)
Applications and Investigations in Earth Science (9th Edition)
9th Edition
ISBN:9780134746241
Author:Edward J. Tarbuck, Frederick K. Lutgens, Dennis G. Tasa
Publisher:Edward J. Tarbuck, Frederick K. Lutgens, Dennis G. Tasa
Chapter1: The Study Of Minerals
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Geologists, through various methods of rock-dating (mostly radiometric methods) and data extrapolation, have determined that our planet was formed approximately 4.55 BILLION years ago. To us as humans, numbers like "million" or "billion" don't really compute; for the most part, the numbers that we encounter in our day-to-day don't really go that high. There's 60 seconds in a minute; 60 minutes in an hour; 24 hours in a day; 365 days in a year. Even the longest-living humans don't make it too far past 100 years. In general, when we think of numbers like "million" or "billion", we just mash them together in a category we call "a lot" and leave it at that. For example, I can tell you that the following photo is of a mineral crystal (a zircon) that's 4.375 billion years old: Don't worry about the blue (it's not that color, it's just imaged using a technique called cathodoluminescence, which helps us see the "layers"); the thing to see is that it has many layers, each of which might have only taken hours, days, or weeks to form. But the
Transcribed Image Text:Geologists, through various methods of rock-dating (mostly radiometric methods) and data extrapolation, have determined that our planet was formed approximately 4.55 BILLION years ago. To us as humans, numbers like "million" or "billion" don't really compute; for the most part, the numbers that we encounter in our day-to-day don't really go that high. There's 60 seconds in a minute; 60 minutes in an hour; 24 hours in a day; 365 days in a year. Even the longest-living humans don't make it too far past 100 years. In general, when we think of numbers like "million" or "billion", we just mash them together in a category we call "a lot" and leave it at that. For example, I can tell you that the following photo is of a mineral crystal (a zircon) that's 4.375 billion years old: Don't worry about the blue (it's not that color, it's just imaged using a technique called cathodoluminescence, which helps us see the "layers"); the thing to see is that it has many layers, each of which might have only taken hours, days, or weeks to form. But the
Convert 1,000 seconds into minutes. Remember, round to two decimal places. Type your answer...
Transcribed Image Text:Convert 1,000 seconds into minutes. Remember, round to two decimal places. Type your answer...
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The age of our Earth is 4.5 billion years. Radiometric dating shows that our Earth was formed approximately 4.5 billion years ago. The age of the Earth calculated from the dating of zircon minerals is 4.5 billion years. 

For human beings the numbers are really too big as human beings live to 100 years. 

We have 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in a hours 24 hours in a day and 365 days in a year. 


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