Uranium-xenon and uranium-krypton dating

Name: Uranium-xenon and uranium-krypton dating
Keywords: 7. Clean energy

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Part of book or chapter of book , Other literature type 01 Jan 1997 English Publisher:Springer Netherlands

Authors: R. N. C. Bowen; H.-G. Attendorn;

doi: 10.1007/978-94-011-5840-4_6

Uranium-xenon and uranium-krypton dating

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Abstract

Uranium undergoes spontaneous fission as well as radioactive α-decay and this produces fissiogenic Xe and Kr which accumulate in U-bearing minerals through geological time. The proposal to use these for determining the age of such minerals was made as early as 1947 when Khlopin, Gerling and Baronovskaya discovered Xe produced by the spontaneous fission of 238U in pitchblende.

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