Explanation:
The use of carbon-14 has some advantages over other radioisotopes and also over other dating methods, for example:
- Dating fossils, since all living carbon-based organisms acquire carbon by photosynthesis or consumption of plants and animals, all living things can be dated with this method.
- It is not limited, this is a way of saying that its effective range is very wide, it allows dating to a maximum of 62,000 years
- It has oceanographic and climatic utilities
- Dating of aquifers, carbon-14 decomposes constantly even underwater
