What are the limitations of uranium-238 dating? How did you overcome its limitations?

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Satyadeep · Answer 1 · 2021-12-13T07:42:37+0000

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Uranium 238 is only found in igneous or volcanic rocks. So no fossils can be dated directly using U 238. Because of the huge differences in the half lives of Carbon 14 and Uranium238 they cannot be used together. Carbon 14 can only be used to date fossils of a very recent age.

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