December 2010 LSAT
Section 2
Question 2
Emil-Kunkin on September 9 at 05:01PM
I see what you're saying, this is a good question. I think this is because the only way that carbon dating is useful in predicting future earthquakes is because it tells us about the location and frequency of past earthquakes. That is, carbon dating doesn't actually tell us anything about future quakes. It only tells about the past, which we can then use to make predictions about the future. That is, if we removed their use in studying past earthquakes, they would be useless for predicting future earthquakes.