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The Age of the Earth

Nature volume 95, pages 203–204 (1915)Cite this article

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SOME fifty years ago Kelvin announced that the temperature of the earth could not have been anything like its present value for more than some 20–30 million years. This estimate was based upon three independent considerations, namely, the temperature gradient inside the earth's crust, the amount of tidal friction, and the total amount of energy radiated by the sun.

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LINDEMANN, F. The Age of the Earth. Nature 95, 203–204 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/095203a0

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