Isochron

"Isochron" in a Sentence (2 examples)

Recapitulating, any suite of comagmatic rocks with an age t defines an isochron if its members all had the same initial ^{₈₇}Sr/^{₈₆}Sr ratio and if it was closed to both Rb and Sr since crystallization occurred and neither element was introduced from any extraneous source.[…]In this way, whole-rock Rb-Sr isochrons can produce rather reliable age data for rock samples.

The entire plane is foliated by isochrons.

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