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Nature 444, 134-135 (9 November 2006) | doi:10.1038/444134a; Published online 8 November 2006
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Special report Telling the time
Abstract
Geochronologists are pinning down dates in deep time better than ever before. Rex Dalton talks to the experts who are redrawing the details of Earth history.
By fine-tuning their techniques, researchers are refining their ability to measure ever more precisely the ticking of Earth's geological clock.For decades, geologists and palaeontologists have had only ball-park estimates for when major events happened in the history of life on Earth.
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