Argonne researchers find new isotope for climatological dating
Thursday, May 12, 2011 - 15:50
in Paleontology & Archaeology
(PhysOrg.com) -- Radioactive dating is used to determine everything from the age of dinosaur fossils to Native American arrowheads. A new technique recently developed at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory may give researchers another tool for radioactive dating that could be of particular use in studying the history of climate change.