Overview
Syllabus
What is an isotope?
How radiometric dating works
What rocks can be radiometrically dated?
What does ‘resetting’ mean?
How ‘resetting’ works
Not all isotope systems ‘reset’
Different ‘resetting’ temperatures
Isotope + mineral selection is key
Problem w/initial daughter isotopes
Mineral/isotope selection helps minimize this
Loss/gain models helps minimize this
Isochrons helps minimize this
Multiple samples helps minimize this
Why daughter isotopes are ‘rejected’ during formation
Where do all the daughter isotopes go?
Correcting’ isotope data
Reliability of peer-reviewed journals
Repetition also helps
Taught by
GEO GIRL