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5/9 The challenge: Basalt doesn't contain zircons, the minerals that give reliable rock ages.

O'Neil's team used samarium-neodynium dating - so specialized it's usually for moon and Mars rocks. "There are no rocks on Earth old enough to use that technique."
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