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SINCE the advent of our knowledge of radioactive processes, the old controversy over the age of the earth has been revived, and although there is now a marked change of opinion in favour of the longer estimates, it remains unfortunately true that there still appear to be tantalising discrepancies between the results from different methods. These discrepancies may be mitigated or exaggerated by special pleading, but they still stand in the way of an unequivocal settlement of the problem.
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From the Geological View-point. By T. C. Chamberlin . From the Paleontological View-point. By J. M. Clarke . From the Point of View of Astronomy. By E. W. Brown . The Radioactive Point of View. By W. Duane . (Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc, vol. Ixi., No. 4, pp. 247–88, 1922. Philadelphia.)
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HOLMES, A. The Age of the Earth. Nature 112, 302–303 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/112302a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/112302a0