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- Title
New look at the lead isotope growth curve.
- Authors
OVERSBY, V. M.
- Abstract
THE isotopic composition of lead changes with time due to radiogenic production from isotopes of uranium and thorium. Two lead isotopes are produced from uranium, 206Pb from 238U, and 207Pb from 235U. The paired U-Pb decay schemes are particularly useful since geochronological information can be derived even when there has been a chemical fractionation of U from Pb at some time during the history of the sample. For example, the 206Pb/204Pb and 207Pb/204Pb ratios can be measured in a galena (PbS) sample; by assuming that the parent material for the galena had suffered no chemical fractionation of U from Pb from the time of formation of the Earth until production of the galena, one can calculate a 'model' age of formation for the galena. This model is referred to as single stage growth of lead and can be characterised by a μ value [(238U/204Pb), as measured today] for the parent U-Pb system.
- Publication
Nature, 1974, Vol 248, Issue 5444, p132
- ISSN
0028-0836
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/248132a0