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Vesuvius in AD 79 now anchors a sharper clock for Earth’s past

Paul Renne’s laboratory at the Berkeley Geochronology Center took eight crystals blasted out of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 and ...

Pompeii's destruction helps calibrate volcanic dating to within decades

When Pliny the Younger recorded his firsthand experience of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius 2,000 years ago—a cataclysm that ...

The eruption that buried Pompeii is helping scientists synchronize Earth’s geological clocks

Scientists used the precisely recorded 79 CE eruption of Mount Vesuvius to recalibrate argon-argon dating, reducing ...
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Pompeii’s 2,000-year-old eruption just gave scientists a better clock for Earth’s past

Mount Vesuvius’ famous 79 CE eruption has given scientists a remarkably precise benchmark for dating events deep in Earth’s past. The improved technique could sharpen the timelines of volcanic ...

Rocks from Pompeii suburb tells a story of destruction—that could help us today

A new study published today in the journal Science Advances reports that the argon-argon dating method calibrated with that ...
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2,000-year-old Vesuvius eruption that buried Pompeii helps scientists date Earth’s history more precisely

A new study uses the 79 CE Vesuvius eruption to improve argon-argon dating and measure volcanic events with greater precision.
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Pompeii’s Destruction Helps Scientists Sharpen a Volcanic Clock

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius buried Pompeii in 79 CE. It also left scientists something unusually valuable: volcanic rock ...