Which Sample Would Not Be Appropriate for Dating by Means

question 97

Multiple Choice

Which sample would not be appropriate for dating by means of radioactive potassium?

• A) A Homo erectus skeleton thought be around 800,000 years old
• B) An igneous intrusion into the sediments of the Cretaceous sea where they are now exposed on land
• C) An igneous intrusion from a 250-million-year-old volcano eruption associated with the Permian mass extinction
• D) An igneous intrusion into the sediments of the Cambrian sea where they are now exposed on land
• E) Stromatolites containing 3-billion-year-old bacterial mats

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