Potassium Argon Dating (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1966)

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 mineral which can be successfully dated by the potassium argon method. Even though this method has been applied for over fifteen years, there is as yet no work which summarizes the experimental techniques and the results available. The sixtieth birthday ofW. GENTNER, one of the pioneers in this field of research, is a suitable time to present such a summary.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag
Country of origin:	Germany
Release date:	December 2012
First published:	1966
Editorial coordinators:	O. A. Schaeffer • J. Zahringer
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	234
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1966
ISBN-13:	978-3-642-87897-8
Categories:	Books > Earth & environment > Earth sciences > Geology & the lithosphere > General
LSN:	3-642-87897-0
Barcode:	9783642878978

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