• Argonargon (or 40Ar/39Ar) dating is a radiometric dating method invented to supersede potassium–argon (K/Ar) dating in accuracy. The older method required...
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    dating. Also, potassium–argon dating and related argon-argon dating are used to date sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous rocks. Argon has been used by athletes...
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  • been observed) Cosmogenic nuclide Used in argonargon dating Used in argonargon dating and potassium–argon dating Generated from 40K in rocks. These ratios...
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  • Potassium–argon dating, abbreviated K–Ar dating, is a radiometric dating method used in geochronology and archaeology. It is based on measurement of the...
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  • The Eye of Argon is a 1970 sword and sorcery fantasy novella by Jim Theis (1953–2002) that narrates the adventures of the barbarian Grignr. It has been...
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  • calendar year. Absolute dating techniques include radiocarbon dating of wood or bones, potassium-argon dating, and trapped-charge dating methods such as thermoluminescence...
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    Potassium–argon dating and argonargon dating. These techniques date metamorphic, igneous and volcanic rocks. They are also used to date volcanic ash...
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    KH-5 ARGON was a series of reconnaissance satellites produced by the United States from February 1961 to August 1964. The KH-5 operated similarly to the...
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    Thermochronology (category Radiometric dating)
    track dating in zircon, apatite, titanite, natural glasses, and other uranium-rich mineral grains. Others include potassium-argon and argon-argon dating in...
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  • Among the best-known techniques are radiocarbon dating, potassium–argon dating and uranium–lead dating. By allowing the establishment of geological timescales...
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    Noble gas (section Argon)
    the members of group 18 of the periodic table: helium (He), neon (Ne), argon (Ar), krypton (Kr), xenon (Xe), radon (Rn) and, in some cases, oganesson...
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    known as BORA – ARGON 18". Argon 18. 29 July 2014. Archived from the original on 12 November 2014. Retrieved 25 July 2018. "Report: Bora-Argon 18 to sign Sagan...
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    diameter and its age of 65.39 ± 0.14/0.16 million years, based on argon-argon dating techniques, less than 1 million years younger than Chicxulub crater...
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  • Argon (Korean: 아르곤; RR: Areugon) is a 2017 South Korean television series directed by Lee Yoon-jung, starring Kim Joo-hyuk and Chun Woo-hee as passionate...
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  • Argon Zark! is a webcomic, created by cartoonist and web site designer Charley Parker. The strip, drawn using a graphics tablet and computer graphics...
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  • pioneering work on rare gases in meteorites led him to develop the argonargon dating technique that demonstrated the great age of meteorites and provided...
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  • 227.8 ± 1.1 million years (Carnian stage of the Triassic) using the argon-argon dating technique. The crater is well preserved but poorly exposed at the...
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    (million years old), in 1994 it was claimed, based on argonargon dating, which was then a new dating method, that the skull was around 1.81 Ma old. The...
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    structure. The timing of the impact has been dated using argon-argon dating and uranium-lead dating of zircon crystals within the melt rock to 57.99 ± 0.54...
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    Volga Federal District, Russia. It is 80 km (50 mi) in diameter. Argonargon dating has constrained the age of formation to be 195.9 ± 1.0 million years...
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  • following: Amino acid dating Archaeomagnetic dating Argonargon dating Astronomical chronology Carbon dating: Also known as radiocarbon dating, it can reveal...
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    estimated to be older than 700 Ma (probably about 710–720 Ma) based on argon-argon dating of impact melt rocks found near the southeastern shore of Lake Haapaselkä...
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    Valley volcanic activity have allowed for multiple argonargon dating studies. The high resolution dating enables archaeological studies regarding changing...
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    Potassium-40 (category Radionuclides used in radiometric dating)
    a neutrino. Potassium-40 is especially important in potassium–argon (K–Ar) dating. Argon is a gas that does not ordinarily combine with other elements...
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  • Biochronology (category Geochronological dating methods)
    indirectly through known evolutionary lineages. A combination of argonargon dating and magnetic stratigraphy allows a direct temporal comparison of terrestrial...
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    mass spectrometry (GD-MS), ICP-MS introduces many interfering species: argon from the plasma, component gases of air that leak through the cone orifices...
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  • Operation Argon (sometimes denoted simply as Operation Cabinda) was an unsuccessful military operation carried out by South African special forces in...
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    Sandstone has yielded radiometric ages of 35 and 33 million years by argon-argon dating. The Chuska Sandstone is formed of sand dune deposits, and it appears...
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    old. Recent argon-argon dating reveals an age of approximately 18,000 years ± 5,000 years (~90% certainty) for the most recent flow. dating with chlorine...
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    5 mi) from the volcano. One of these is dated 342,000 years ago by argon-argon dating. Off the western coast of South America, the Nazca Plate subducts...
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