Despite seeming like a relatively stable place, the Earth's surface has changed dramatically over the past 4.6 billion years. Mountains have been built and eroded, continents and oceans have moved ...

Potassium-argon dating of igneous and metamorphic rocks with applications to the basin ranges of Arizona and Sonora / P.E. Damon -- A comparison of the isotopic mineral age variations and petrologic ...

In 1902 Ernest Rutherford and Frederick Soddy discovered that radioactive elements, such as uranium and thorium, broke down into other elements in a predictable sequence or series. This amazing fact ...

Radiometric normalisation is a critical preprocessing step in the analysis of satellite imagery, aimed at mitigating the effects of atmospheric variability, sensor calibration differences, ...

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