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Uranium–lead dating, abbreviated U–Pb dating, is one of the oldest [1] and most refined of the radiometric dating schemes. It can be used to date rocks that formed and crystallised from about 1 million years to over 4.5 billion years ago with routine precisions in the 0.1–1 percent range. [2] [3] The method is usually applied to zircon.
Zircon is a strong tool for uranium-lead age determination because of its inherent properties: [8] Zircon contains high amount of uranium for machine recognition, commonly 100–1000 ppm. [8] Zircon has a low amount of lead during crystallization, in parts per trillion. [8] Thus, lead found in zircon can be assumed as daughter nuclei from ...
Zircon is extremely useful for geological dating: when forming, it collects tiny imperfections of uranium, but never lead. It follows that if lead is present in zircon, it must have come from decay of the uranium present. (The process is known as U-Pb dating.) The team measured the concentrations and isotopic compositions of foreign elements ...
Rubidium-strontium dating is not as precise as the uranium–lead method, with errors of 30 to 50 million years for a 3-billion-year-old sample. Application of in situ analysis (Laser-Ablation ICP-MS) within single mineral grains in faults have shown that the Rb-Sr method can be used to decipher episodes of fault movement.
With uranium-lead (U-Pb) dating he developed a simple, yet innovative air-abrasion technique for removing exterior portions of minerals that may have suffered Pb-loss, which, combined with improved magnetic separation methods, greatly improved the accuracy and precision of zircon geochronology. In addition, Krogh's laboratory methods for the ...
Uranium–lead dating. This technique measures the ratio of two lead isotopes (lead-206 and lead-207) to the amount of uranium in a mineral or rock. Often applied to the trace mineral zircon in igneous rocks, this method is one of the two most commonly used (along with argon–argon dating) for geologic dating.
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The U–Pb dating method can yield the most precise ages for early Solar System objects due to the optimal half-life of 238 U. However, the absence of zircon or other uranium-rich minerals in chondrites, and the presence of initial non-radiogenic Pb (common Pb), rules out direct use of the U–Pb concordia method. Therefore, the most precise ...