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  • Morrison Formation
    dating
    / Double uranium-lead chronometers

    …against the other on a concordia diagram. If the point falls on the upper curve shown, the locus of identical ages, the result is said to be concordant, and a closed-system unequivocal age has been established. Any leakage of daughter isotopes from the system will cause the two ages calculated…

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    …against the other on a concordia diagram. If the point falls on the upper curve shown, the locus of identical ages, the result is said to be concordant, and a closed-system unequivocal age has been established. Any leakage of daughter isotopes from the system will cause the two ages calculated…

    Read More