Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun rubidium-strontium_dating

1 sense of rubidium-strontium dating

Sense 1
rubidium-strontium dating -- (geological dating based on the proportions of radioactive rubidium into its decay product strontium; radioactive rubidium has a half-life of 47,000,000,000 years)
       => dating, geological dating -- (use of chemical analysis to estimate the age of geological specimens)