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    Fission track dating is a radiometric dating technique based on analyses of the damage trails, or tracks, left by fission fragments in certain uranium-bearing...
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  • Radiometric dating, radioactive dating or radioisotope dating is a technique which is used to date materials such as rocks or carbon, in which trace radioactive...
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    be used to estimate the age of a sample via fission track dating. Nuclear fission Natural nuclear fission reactor Alpha decay Cluster decay Schunck, Nicolas;...
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    Radiocarbon dating (also referred to as carbon dating or carbon-14 dating) is a method for determining the age of an object containing organic material...
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    Potassium–argon dating and argon–argon dating. These techniques date metamorphic, igneous and volcanic rocks. They are also used to date volcanic ash layers...
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  • Uranium–lead dating, abbreviated U–Pb dating, is one of the oldest and most refined of the radiometric dating schemes. It can be used to date rocks that...
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    microscopic tracks left by these fission products in some natural minerals (mainly apatite and zircon) are used in fission track dating to provide the...
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  • resonance dating Fission track dating Geochronology Herbchronology Iodine–xenon dating Potassium–argon dating Lead–lead dating Luminescence dating Thermoluminescence...
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  • Uranium–thorium dating, also called thorium-230 dating, uranium-series disequilibrium dating or uranium-series dating, is a radiometric dating technique established...
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    Thermochronology (category Radiometric dating)
    rock. Common isotopic systems used for thermochronology include fission track dating in zircon, apatite, titanite, natural glasses, and other uranium-rich...
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