Wednesday, May 28, 2025

Potassium — Argon and Sandwich Dating


Potassium-Argon and Argon-Argon Dating for Fossils | Archaeological Dating Methods
Dig It With Raven | 26 Jan. 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-s_B5vg0AQ


that means when everything is 4:17 cooled and igneous rock is formed the 4:20 argon levels are set to 4:22 zero all of the argon that we find in 4:24 igneous rock is then therefore the 4:26 product 4:27 of potassium 40 decay


Even if the lava cools before all the argon could peter out?

1801, the Hualalai volcano on Hawaii erupted, lava flow went to the ocean floor, 0.8 miles deep, 0 million, but two miles deep 12 million years.

I would say, the deeper the lava was in the water, the quicker it cooled and the more argon was trapped, giving a false result by the K-Ar dating.

Credits to a talk by Dr. Grady McMurtry.*

5:05 Thank you very much for noting the problem with calcium 40. I just note, argon is not immune from it under aquatic conditions.

Have you ever heard of a Global Flood?

7:02 Sandwich dating is a thing I dealt with too.**

Imagine the early stages of the Flood, when not everything is covered in water.

Volcano, tsunami cooling it, survivors getting across it and dying in the next tsunami, volcano again, and a few more times volcano again.

The earlier coolings of the volcano would have been while the water was deeper, since volcanic activity and sedimenary deposition by precipitation highten the ocean floor and also, volcanic activity heats the water, so even deeper waters (see about early stages) are less cooling.

9:17 Like you described argon-argon, it sounds nuts, sorry.

Not even remotely as reassuring as even potassium argon.

I'm not an expert, but how does this avoid potassium 40 being turned into argon 40 by a process similar to potassium 39 being turned into argon 39?

How can you even be sure potassium 39 isn't turned into argon 40 when more than one neutron bombards it?

* Uploaded on a video from 2016, not sure if the talk was same year, the volcano comes after 7 minutes in:

Why i believe in a young earth by ex-evolutionist Dr.Grady McMurtry Part 2
Arne Karlsen | 15 May 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1Qr9ZZ-Y30


** On this post:

Creation vs. Evolution: Isn't There a Geological Column in Laetoli, and Aren't the Footprints Proof of Human Ancestors?
Saturday 4 Oct 2014 | Hans Georg Lundahl
https://creavsevolu.blogspot.com/2014/10/isnt-there-geological-column-in-laetoli.html

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