Volcanic eruptions can destroy building that store resources, burn trees, kill animals and make land not suitable for farming etc
It is practiced on small patches of land with the help of primitive tools
Answer:
A rock with a half-life of 5,280 years having 1/8th of the parent material left will be 15,840 years old.
Explanation:
The half-life of a material is the time needed for only half of the parent material to be left, while half has is gone, or rather has disintegrated. The half-life is used further into the falling apart of the parent material though, with the same principle being applied. Practically, from the 1/2 of the parent material being left, the half-life of it would mean 1/4 of the parent material being left, and from that 1/4, the half-life would be at 1/8 of the parent material being left, and so one, by simply dividing in two.
In this case, having a half-life of the rock of 5,280 years, we will simply need to add that amount of years on every next phase. So, the half-life is 5,280 when 1/ of the parent material is left. When 1/4 of the parent material will be left we will have an age of 10,560 years, while when only 1/8 is left, we will have 15,840 years of age for the rock.