KnowraAge of EarthLinked fromLinked fromThe 14 pages that link to Age of Earth, each with the reason it gives.All 14Broader topic 3Related 10Compared with 1Radiometric datingRelated: Radiometric dating of meteorites and terrestrial materials established this estimate.Isotope geochemistryRelated: Radiometric isotope measurements of meteorites and ancient minerals underpin this estimate.Charles LyellRelated: Lyell helped make an ancient Earth scientifically plausible, though he did not determine its modern measured age.Arthur HolmesRelated: Holmes’s radiometric work challenged estimates that left too little time for geological change.Early EarthRelated: Radiometric dating places the beginning of Earth’s history at roughly 4.54 billion years ago.History of geologyRelated: Improved dating methods replaced short chronologies with a measured planetary history.Lord KelvinRelated: Kelvin’s cooling calculations produced an age far younger than geological and later radiometric estimates.Earth's internal heat budgetRelated: The age sets the timescale over which primordial heat has been lost and radioactive heat produced.Georges-Louis LeclercRelated: Buffon used cooling experiments to argue for an Earth far older than biblical chronology allowed.Thomas Chrowder ChamberlinRelated: Chamberlin’s geological arguments addressed the long timescales required for Earth’s history.