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So little is really known about the earth's age that any additional mode of approximating to it, however rough, may possess some value. The following method of finding a lower limit is, with one or two alterations, the same as that given in a paper in the Geological Magazine for 1887 (p. 348). It depends, not on the rate of denudation, but on the rate of subsidence within the area of sedimentation.
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DAVISON, C. The Age of the Earth. Nature 51, 607–608 (1895). https://doi.org/10.1038/051607b0
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