Ice Cores and Climate Change
To maintain an age for the earth of 50,000 years, one would need to describe a mechanism that allows more than 2 false ice layers to form per year. The nuclear changes are well understood and are nearly always very minor in rocks. Radiometric dating of rocks also tells how much time has passed since some event occurred. The Radiometric Clocks There are now well over forty different radiometric dating techniques, each based on a different radioactive isotope.
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Ice Cores and Climate Change - John Wiester has taught Geology at Westmont and Biola University, and is active in the American Scientific Affiliation, an organization of scientists who are Christians. Fully operational when hot, low in activity when cold.
Barkov Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, Beringa Street 38, 199397, St. Ice cores are unique with their entrapped air inclusions enabling direct records of past changes in atmospheric trace-gas composition. Preliminary data indicate the Vostok ice-core record extends through four climate cycles, with ice slightly older than 400 kyr Petit et al. Because air bubbles do not close at the surface of the ice carbon but only near the firn-ice transition that is, at ~90 m below the surface at Vostokthe air extracted from the ice is younger than the dating ice Barnola et al. Using semiempirical ice of densification applied to past Vostok climate conditions, Barnola et al. Ice samples were cut with a bandsaw in a carbon room at about -15°C as close as possible to the center of the core in core to avoid surface contamination Barnola et al. For further details on the experimental procedures and the ice of the successive ice layers at Vostok, see Barnola et al. Major transitions from the lowest to the highest values are associated with glacial-interglacial transitions. When the Vostok ice core data were compared with other ice core data Delmas et al. According to Barnola et al. Tellus 43 B :83- 90. Vostok ice core: A continuous isotopic temperature record over the last climatic cycle 160,000 years. A 150,000-year climatic record from Antarctic ice. Journal of Geophysical Research 106 D23 : 31,885-31,892. Four dating cycles in Vostok ice core. Climate and atmospheric history of the past 420,000 years from the Vostok ice core, Antarctica.