Comment on the Joint determination of 40K decay constants and 40Ar */ 40K for the Fish Canyon sanid
Comment on the Joint determination of 40K decay constants and 40Ar */ 40K for the Fish Canyon sanid
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评鱼峡谷 sanid 40K 衰变常数和 40Ar */ 40K 联合测定
DOI:
10.1016/j.gca.2011.06.022
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发表时间:
2010
影响因子:
5
通讯作者:
Hopp J.
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文献类型:
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作者:
Schwarz W.H;Kossert K;Trieloff M;Hopp J.
Since the call by Begemann et al.(2001), several authors (see eg, Min et al., 2000; Nägler and Villa, 2000; Grau Malonda and Grau Carles, 2002; Kwon et al., 2002; Trieloff et al., 2003; Kossert and Günther, 2004; Krumrei et al., 2006; Mundil et al., 2006; Schwarz and Trieloff, 2007a, b; Renne et al., 2010) have contributed to the discussion of whether–and if so, in which way–the convention of constants used for K–Ar and Ar–Ar dating by Steiger and Jäger (1977) needs to be reevaluated. Recently, Renne et al.(2010) presented a new evaluation of the 40K decay constant and the branching ratio for the dual decay into 40Ar by electron capture and 40Ca by bÀ decay. Their results are partially based on values for the 40K decay constant from two liquid scintillation counting (LSC) experiments of Grau Malonda and Grau Carles (2002) and Kossert and Günther (2004). An important–though easily overseen–point in these two studies is that the calculated total decay constant in LSC measurements depends on a specifically adopted branching ratio Pb/Pec of the probabilities for bÀ decay to 40Ca and electron capture (ec, including both possible decays, electron capture to the ground state and electron capture followed by c emission) to 40Ar (89.14/10.86%, Kossert and Günther, 2004; 89.3/10.7%, Grau Malonda and Grau Carles, 2002) and a certain 40K/K ratio of 0.01167 (2)%(Garner et al., 1975). The result of the total decay constant obtained by LSC changes when different branching and 40K/K ratio (s) are adopted for calculations, since the counting efficiency of LSC experiments is significantly lower for the ec branch than for the beta branch (approx. 0.13 against 0.997). This intrinsic dependency is shown in Fig. 1: for example, a relative decrease in the probability for the ec branch of about 1% leads to a total decay constant that is lower by about 0.1%, when using the same 40K/K ratio of 0.01167. Therefore, the statements in Section 2.4 about the activity data from Grau Malonda and Grau Carles (2002) and Kossert and Günther (2004) and the resulting combined decay constant in Renne et al.(2010) as well as the sentence on page 5356:“Rather, miscalibration of kb in the opposite sense is suggested, consistent with the previously discussed LSC data which indicate a $0.22% larger value (5.555 Â 10À10 aÀ1) of ktot than that (5.543 Â 10À10 aÀ1) recommended by Steiger and Jäger (1977)” are not correct. The decay constant calculated by Kossert and Günther (2004) of 5.554 Â 10À10 aÀ1 (t½= 1.248 (3) Ga) would decrease to approx. 5.534 Â 10À10 aÀ1, when using the decay branches of 89.52/10.48% recommended by Steiger and Jäger (1977) and down to approx. 5.528 Â 10À10 aÀ1 when using the branching ratio evaluated by Renne et al.(2010)(89.63/10.37%), see Fig. 1. Both values would be significantly lower, than the result of 5.5492 Â 10À10 aÀ1 of Renne et al.(2010). A similar consideration based on the LSC result from Grau Malonda and Grau Carles (2002) can be drawn. The discrepancy elucidated here between values for the total decay constant obtained by the different methods of Kossert and Günther (2004) and Renne et al.(2010) might be due to an incorrect 40K/K ratio, which would also change the 40K decay constant from Kossert and Günther (2004), or it could be a consequence of insufficient calibration of the value presented by Renne et al.(2010) for the following reason. An important part of the geochronologi-0016-7037/$-see front matter© 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. doi: 10.1016/j. gca. 2011.06. 022
影响因子:
3.9
作者:
Thomas V. Krumrei;I. Villa;M. Marks;G. Markl
通讯作者:
G. Markl
DOI:
10.1016/j.apradiso.2003.11.059
发表时间:
2004
期刊:
Applied radiation and isotopes : including data, instrumentation and methods for use in agriculture, industry and medicine
影响因子:
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作者:
K. Kossert;E. Günther
通讯作者:
E. Günther
影响因子:
5.3
作者:
GOPEL, C;MANHES, G;ALLEGRE, CJ
通讯作者:
ALLEGRE, CJ