Geoscience Reference
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I cannot stress enough the value of G. Brent Dalrymple's book The Age of the
Earth (1991). It remains without question the best treatment of the history and
methodology of geochronological dating methods particularly those used in the last
one hundred years. He gives a synopsis of the topic in G. B. Dalrymple, 'The age of
the Earth in the twentieth century: a problem (mostly) solved', in Lewis and Knell,
The Age of the Earth (2001) pp. 205-221.