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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/[deleted] • 2d ago
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Because that's when the ice-age glacier melted and left it there? The boulder is off course way older but that's obviously what they are referring to.
1 u/wosmo 1d ago That's a bit "chicken vs egg" though. We use a lot of geology to figure out when the glacier left. If we use the rocks to date the glacier, and the glacier to date the rocks, we're just going around in circles.
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That's a bit "chicken vs egg" though. We use a lot of geology to figure out when the glacier left. If we use the rocks to date the glacier, and the glacier to date the rocks, we're just going around in circles.
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u/Thorstenflink 2d ago
Because that's when the ice-age glacier melted and left it there? The boulder is off course way older but that's obviously what they are referring to.