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2. Uranium–thorium dating - Wikipedia

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   Uranium–thorium dating. Uranium–thorium dating, also called thorium-230 dating, uranium-series disequilibrium dating or uranium-series dating, is a radiometric dating technique established in the 1960s which has been used since the 1970s to determine the age of calcium carbonate materials such as speleothem or coral. [1][2] Unlike other ...

3. Uranium–lead dating - Wikipedia

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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.

4. Uranium–uranium dating - Wikipedia

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   Uranium–uranium dating is a radiometric dating technique which compares two isotopes of uranium (U) in a sample: uranium-234 (234 U) and uranium-238 (238 U). It is one of several radiometric dating techniques exploiting the uranium radioactive decay series, in which 238 U undergoes 14 alpha and beta decay events on the way to the stable isotope 206 Pb.

5. Uranium-238 - Wikipedia

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   The most common dating method is uranium-lead dating, which is used to date rocks older than 1 million years old and has provided ages for the oldest rocks on Earth at 4.4 billion years old. [14] The relation between 238 U and 234 U gives an indication of the age of sediments and seawater that are between 100,000 years and 1,200,000 years in ...

6. Radiometric dating - Wikipedia

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   Radiometric dating. Radiometric dating, radioactive dating or radioisotope dating is a technique which is used to date materials such as rocks or carbon, in which trace radioactive impurities were selectively incorporated when they were formed. The method compares the abundance of a naturally occurring radioactive isotope within the material to ...

7. Lead–lead dating - Wikipedia

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   Lead–lead dating. Lead–lead dating is a method for dating geological samples, normally based on 'whole-rock' samples of material such as granite. For most dating requirements it has been superseded by uranium–lead dating (U–Pb dating), but in certain specialized situations (such as dating meteorites and the age of the Earth) it is more ...