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Old October 26th 04, 07:50 PM
H Schinske
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Anne wrote:

Your husband is right after 50 thousand years or so there is not enough
carbon 14 left in the sample to determine the age of the sample.


Is there any carbon 14 in fossils anyway, even younger ones? I thought the
process of fossilization pretty much replaced all the bone, so that strictly
speaking there are no actual dinosaur bones left, only their images in stone.

--Helen