[bit.listserv.christia] radioactive dating of volcanic flows

COSMO@TRIUMFER (02/10/90)

>Hawaiian lava flows, which are known to be less than 200 years
>old, have been dated by the potassium-argon method at up to 3 billion
>years old.
>Kurt

It wasn't the age of the flow they were talking about, it was the age
of the material making up the flow.

Peace
David