Scientists Dated the Catastrophic Pompeii Eruption Using Only Rocks. Here’s How Close They Got
“Argon-argon dating” is a common technique scientists use to reveal when a geological event, such as a volcanic…
Pompeii Is Helping Scientists Sharpen the Clocks Used to Date Earth’s History
The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum (c. 1821) by John Martin. Nearly 2,000 years ago, Pliny the Younger watched Mount Vesuvius…
The eruption that buried Pompeii is helping scientists synchronize Earth’s geological clocks
Scientists used the precisely recorded 79 CE eruption of Mount Vesuvius to recalibrate argon-argon dating, reducing uncertainty for…