Fairly young fossils are often radiometrically dated using c…
Fairly young fossils are often radiometrically dated using carbon-14 dating. The half life of carbon-14 is approximately 6000 years. A sample of carbon taken from a fossil is found to contain 1/8 the carbon-14 you would find in a sample of carbon of the same size taken from something alive today. From this information, the fossil is approximately how old?