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Potassium Argon Dating

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Lectures in Isotope Geology

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The main principle of the conventional K-Ar method is very simple. 40K decays to 40Ar, and assuming we know the decay constants and are capable of measuring parent and daughter isotopes rather precisely, we should succeed in calculating an age.

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Hunziker, J.C. (1979). Potassium Argon Dating. In: Jäger, E., Hunziker, J.C. (eds) Lectures in Isotope Geology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-67161-6_5

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