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IT has been found1 that the blunting of the edges of blocks of sandstone can be used to determine their age in a range of 200 to 105 years. The corrosion of basaltic fragments also follows a law, and it is possible to determine their age in a range of about 500 to 107 years.
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Černohouz, J., and Šolc, I., Czech. J. Phys., 16 (1966).
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ČERNOHOUZ, J., ŠOLC, I. Use of Sandstone Wanes and Weathered Basaltic Crust in Absolute Chronology. Nature 212, 806–807 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/212806a0
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