Subduction Zone
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Inquiries without a point are rarely of value. Do you understand that radioactive decay is an exponential process? That we use "half-lives" tells you that. Let's take a grossly overexaggerated example. Let's say that you had a grand total of 3*10^50 C14 atoms. That is a bit more than if all of the mass of the Earth was C14. After 5,507 years there would be only 1.5*10^50 atoms. Every 5,507 years there will be half as many as we started with. After only 933,985 years you would be down to only 1 single atom of C14 left. That is assuming that exactly half decay every half life. You can see that with real world numbers that the amount of detectable C14 in samples that are as young as only 100,000 years would be so low that even the most sensitive equipment could not detect its presence. That is why C14 dating on almost all sedimentary strata is a waste of money.I have an inquiring mind.
You may have remembered that a group of creationists tired to date dinosaur bones. One thing that screams incompetence is that they did not properly record their work so that others could verify that they followed proper protocols to prevent contamination. To be honest we cannot tell if their was contamination or not, but what we can do is to look at their work and see if it matches predictions. According to YEC's the sedimentary strata that the dinosaurs are found in are from before the flood. Which was about 4,500 years ago according to them. So all of their dates should be from that age. Scientists would say that they are more likely from contamination. If that was the case we should see a range of dates in the low ranges since contamination does not tend to be consistent. Here is a link to their works The numbers look as if they match the contamination claim, not the "flud" claim: