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Description for Potassium Argon Dating
Paperback. Dedicated to Wolfgang Gentner Num Pages: 234 pages, 14 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: RBG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 368.
Perhaps no dating method has the wide range of applicability as does the potassium argon dating method from either consideration of the ranges of ages which can be dated or the availability of suitable material to date. Minerals as young as tens of thousands of years to minerals billions of years old have been successfully dated. Many minerals retain for times of the order of billions of years the daughter, Ar40, and many minerals contain as a component K40 the parent element, potassium being a common element in the earth's crust. As a result, most rock contains at least one ... Read more
Perhaps no dating method has the wide range of applicability as does the potassium argon dating method from either consideration of the ranges of ages which can be dated or the availability of suitable material to date. Minerals as young as tens of thousands of years to minerals billions of years old have been successfully dated. Many minerals retain for times of the order of billions of years the daughter, Ar40, and many minerals contain as a component K40 the parent element, potassium being a common element in the earth's crust. As a result, most rock contains at least one ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
Number of pages
234
Condition
New
Number of Pages
234
Place of Publication
Berlin, Germany
ISBN
9783642878978
SKU
V9783642878978
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99-15
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