The next step came from Arthur Holmes, who set out to date some rocks with Rutherford's new technique. By 1913 he had pushed the formation of the Earth back to 1.6 billion years; by 1946 it was ...

Arthur Holmes 1890 - 1965. ... Using his quantititive time scale and other factors, he made an estimate of Earth's age that was far older than anyone had suggested until then ...

Thus the recent important studies of the age of the habitable Earth by geologists and paleontologists—Holmes, Schuchert, Matthews, Barrell, and others—have high significance in general ...

For centuries scholars sought to determine Earth’s age, ... It was not until 1926, when (under the influence of Arthur Holmes, whose name recurs throughout this story) ...

Meanwhile, Arthur Holmes ... Earth's age crept up toward 3 billion years, making it for a time even older than the universe, which was then estimated to be about 1.8 billion years old.

Estimates of Earth's Age. 1658 Bishop James Ussher publishes calculations, based on biblical accounts, ... 1913 Arthur Holmes uses radioactive dating to show that Earth is 4 billion years old.

In 1928 Arthur Holmes showed how convection currents in the mantle could be this mechanism. ... Dating of the age of the Earth was one of the most important developments in geology, because it ...

The results have fully justified expectation and indicate that the age of the earth, ... ARTHUR HOLMES. Authors. ARTHUR HOLMES. View author publications. Search author on: PubMed ...

Arthur Holmes 1890 - 1965. ... Using his quantititive time scale and other factors, he made an estimate of Earth's age that was far older than anyone had suggested until then ...