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What is an isochron?

What is an isochron? Here are some definitions.

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  1. (geology) A line on a chart linking rock of the same age (especially as measured using the ratios of lead isotopes)
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Should a point plot below the line, it could indicate that a particular sample was open to migration of the dating elements or that the sample was contaminated and lay below the isochron when the rock solidified.
Isochron dating has been developed in an attempt to solve such problems.
Isochron dating: Isochron dating was introduced as an attempted substitute for K-Ar dating, after K-Ar's faulty assumptions were exposed.
Subsequently, they used spatial interpolation methods to generate isochron maps that plotted the mean rates of spread of farming in two dimensions.
Anns Leucogranite has yielded a younger, Cambrian age using the Rb-Sr isochron method and may represent a later phase of plutonism.
Within the context of Kirchhoff migration, this stretch is associated to the variation in the curvature of isochron surfaces for different times on an input seismic trace.

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