age of the earth

From: A Dictionary of Physics | Date: 2000| Author: ALAN ISAACS | Copyright information

age of the earth The time since the earth emerged as a planet of the sun, estimated by dating techniques to be about 4.6 × 109 years. The oldest known rocks on earth are estimated by their

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