Application of the K-Ca geochronometer therefore is best suited to minerals with high K/Ca ratios (Marshall & DePaolo, 1982) and K-bearing clay materials might appear to be amenable to its use.
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Geochronometer
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1 entries- Geochronometer noun (technique used to date rock)
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Other geochronometers like ^{₈₇}Rb-\!^{₈₇}Sr, ^{₁₄₇}Sm-\!^{₁₄₃}Nd, or ^{₁₈₇}Re-\!^{₁₈₇}Os are also successfully applied to dating ore deposits and magmatic, metamorphic, or sedimentary processes.
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K-bearing minerals such as biotite, sanidine, plagioclase, and hornblende are geochronometers representative of the time of their crystallization once they were erupted from a volcano, and then transported into marine sedimentary basins.
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