Show claim definite proof of mother earths earth age nalley olley 11 of co comet et fame tried to find out the earths age by calculating the time it took the rains kins and rivers to wash the salts from the lands into the oceans geologists likewise calculated the time it took for rivers to deposit their deltas for tile the niagara to gouge out its gorge and tor for the geological strata to be laid down but all a uch such methods were defective like hour glasses neither the rivers nor the sands ran uniformly in uranium physicists claim to have at last found a reliable self recording clock says bays the los angeles times disintegrating it gives off gases and the final residue Is lead the rate of disintegration being definitely known after three billion years an ounce of uranium would not weigh an ounce nearly nearby one third of an ounce would be represented by lead As uranium Is always found associated with per cent of its own weight in lead it Is is easy to calculate that some three billion years have elapsed since the first lend lead was formed |