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Radiometric Dating

Horizontales
A process in which the proton-rich nucleus of an electrically neutral atom absorbs an inner atomic electron. This process thereby changes a nuclear proton to a neutron and simultaneously causes the emission of an electron neutrino.
Layers of sedimentary rock
A hollow depression in rock formed when a fossil dissolves out of the rock and show the original shape and surface of the fossil
A form of radioactive decay that is found only in very heavy chemical elements. The nuclear binding energy of the elements reaches its maximum at an atomic mass number of about 56 (e.g., iron-56); spontaneous breakdown into smaller nuclei and a few isolated nuclear particles becomes possible at greater atomic mass numbers.
A single widespread rock layer that is unique and easily recognizable; used to correlate rock layers
An object created by a mineral seep into a fill a mold. forming a copy of the fossil
Indirect evidence of life preserved as an impression in rock (trails, footprints, tracks, burrows, and bite marks).
Fossile remains of organisms that lived and died within a particular time segment of earth's history that can be used to correlate Earth's history
The original element that will, after radioactive decay, become an isotope of a different element with a different atomic number
Verticales
Sediment that is deposited on a yearly cycle
A mode of radioactive decay in which one or more neutrons are ejected from a nucleus. It occurs in the most neutron-rich/proton-deficient nuclides, and also from excited states of other nuclides as in photoneutron emission and beta-delayed neutron emission. As only a neutron is lost by this process the number of protons remains unchanged, and an atom does not become an atom of a different element, but a different isotope of the same element.
Type of radioactive decay in which a fast energetic electron or positron is emitted from an atomic nucleus, transforming the original nuclide to an isobar of that nuclide.
A type of radioactive decay in which an atomic nucleus emits a helium nucleus and thereby transforms or 'decays' into a different atomic nucleus, with a mass number that is reduced by four and an atomic number that is reduced by two
A process by which radioactive isotopes emit or capture tiny particles
A method of recording events that identifies the actual date of an event, such as rock formations
Matching rock layers from one area to another.
An element that is the product of radioactive decay
A technique used to measure absolute time in which the amounts of a parent and daughter isotope within a rock or mineral are measured and the ratio used find the age of the rock
Beta plus decay, or β+ decay is a subtype of radioactive decay called beta decay, in which a proton inside a radionuclide nucleus is converted into a neutron while releasing a positron and an electron neutrino. Mediated by the weak force, the positron is a type of beta particle (β+), the other beta particle being the electron (β−) emitted from the β− decay of a nucleus.
Element that do not decay over time and can exist with no problem. Some examples are Carbon, Sulfur.
The time it takes for half the atoms of a sample to decay to a stable end product