Uranium-thorium dating

Esquema

Getty AAT: Processes and techniques by specific type

Jerarquía

analysis and testing techniques > measuring > dating (measuring) > radioactive dating > uranium-series dating

Descripción

Radiometric dating method which measures the age of igneous calcium carbonate materials. The technique calculates the degree to which radioactive thorium-230 isotopes within a sample have reestablished secular equilibrium with their parent uranium-234 isotopes.

URI original del concepto

http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300386639

Otros términos

  • dating, uranium-thorium [en]
  • U-Th dating [en]