will also explain why samples mast be carefully chosen to avuide eich. help you answer the following questions. 1. Aboat how many half-lives of the uranism-235 to Jead-207 decay pair kusie elipged it the ziscoc erynals? 2. What is the numerical age of the lava flow based con is ziceac ery taks? Explnis bow you antived at your answer. 3. What ean you say aboat the age of the rock layers above the lava fine? 4. What can you say about the age of the rock layen beneath the lava flow? B Astronomers think that Earth probobly formed at the same time as all of the oher rocily materials in our solar system, including the oldest meteorites. The oldest meteorites ever found on Earth contain nearly equal amounts of both uranium-238 and lead-206. Based on Fig. 8.14, what is Earth's approximate age? Explais your reasoning. C The fadioactive iso4ope casbon-14 ( C 14 ) is continuously replenished in organisms while they are alive. When an organism dies, it is no longer able to take in new C-14, and so the amount of C 14 decreases as is decays to its stable daughter product: nitrogen-14 ( N 14 ) . 1. The carbon in a baried peat bed has aboat 6% of the C 14 of modern shells. When we plants that now form the buried peat were alive, they absorted C 14 and probably had about the sume anount of C 14 as modem shells, so about 945 of the peat's original C 14 has decayed. What is a reasonable initial estimute of the age of the peat bed? Explain. 2. In sampling the peat bed, you must be careful to avoid any young plant roos ot old limectone. Why? D Zircon ( ZrSiO 4 ) forns in magma as it cooks into igneous rock. It is alwo wefal for numencal dating (Fig. 8.14). 1. If you walk on a modern New Jersey beach, then you will walk on some ziroon sand grins, Yet if you determine the numerical age of the zircons, it does not indicate a modern age (zero years) for the beach. Why? 2. Suggest a rule that geologists should follow when they dute rocks based on the radionetnic ages of mineral grains inside the rocks. E REFLECT \& DISCUSS An "authentic dinosaur bone" is being offered for sale on the Internet. The seller claims that he had it analyzed by scientists who confirned that it is a dinossur bone and used carbon dating to determine that it is 400 million years old. Discuss the seller's claims with a parther or in a small group. Should you be suspicious of this bone's authenticity? Explain. (See Figs. 8.13 and 8.14.) help you answer the following questions: P = 71/160 = 0.71 n = 10910.71 = 0.4941 1. About how many half-ives of the uranium-235 to lead- 207 decay pair have elapsed in the zircon crystals? 0.4941 2. What is the numerical age of the lava flow based on its zircon erystals? Explain how you arrived at your answer. 3. What can you say about the age of the rock layers above the lava flow? 4. What can you say about the age of the rock layers beneath the lava flow? B Astronomers think that Earth probably formed at the same time as all of the other rocky materials in our s.