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Dinosaur Eggshells Help Paleontologists Determine Age of Fossil-Bearing Rocks


Scientists from Stellenbosch University and elsewhere have used advanced uranium-lead (U-Pb) dating and elemental mapping to measure trace amounts of uranium and lead inside the calcite of fossilized dinosaur eggshells found in the United States and Mongolia.

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