THE AGE OF THE EARTH.
CALCULATION BY RADIUM.
By Cable.—Press Association. —Copyright.
LONDON, June 20,
Mr Arthur Holmes, the distinguished geologist, using radium as a means of calculation, estimates that the carboniferous period of the earth's life must have lasted 340,000,000 years, the Devonian 370,000,000, the pre-Cambrian 900,000,000 to 1,500,000,000, and the Ordovician and Silurian 430,000,000. In addition to these is the enormous period since the carboniferous age.
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 116, 22 June 1914, Page 8
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