Место издания:Изд-во Томского политехнического университета, Томск
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Аннотация:V. I. Vernadsky, as the founder of the very science of radiogeology, considered the discovery of accurate methods fordetermining the age of rocks as a revolutionary achievement in geology, leading to a new understanding of the planet.In his report at the 17th session of the International Geological Congress (Moscow, 1937), he introduced a virtuallynew methodological ban: no determination of the age of rocks by radioisotope methods indicates the age of the planetEarth itself. The most ancient of them show only the date of the last process of metamorphism. And as metamorphicrocks form from sedimentary rocks and then come to the surface again, we see a cyclical geological cycle. It originatesin the biosphere. From the point of view of biological time, the biosphere is always young, but geologically it is eternal.