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Although the radioactivity of potassium was discovered sixty years ago it is only during the last decade that the method of age determination based on the decay of potassium to argon has been widely used. The primary purpose of K-Ar dating has been to determine an age of geological significance.
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Armstrong, R.L. (1966). K-Ar Dating of Plutonic and Volcanic Rocks in Orogenic Belts. In: Potassium Argon Dating. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-87895-4_6
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