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What is an isochron?

What is an isochron? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (geology) A line on a chart linking rock of the same age (especially as measured using the ratios of lead isotopes)
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Isochron dating has been developed in an attempt to solve such problems.
New zircon U-Pb and Rb-Sr mineral isochron ages, together with previously published results, indicate that these granites were emplaced in Late Palaeozoic to Late Mesozoic times.
However, isochron dating bears faulty assumptions of its own.
The emplacement of the collision-type Halatu granites took place at ca. 230 Ma based on whole rock, Rb-Sr isochron and zircon Pb evaporation analyses.
Subsequently, they used spatial interpolation methods to generate isochron maps that plotted the mean rates of spread of farming in two dimensions.
Isochron dating: Isochron dating was introduced as an attempted substitute for K-Ar dating, after K-Ar's faulty assumptions were exposed.

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