TY - JOUR
T1 - Calibration of the interlaboratory 40Ar39Ar dating standard, MMhb-1
AU - Samson, Scott D.
AU - Alexander, E. Calvin
N1 - Funding Information:
Preparation of the new McClure Mountain standards was supported by NASA grants NAG-9-66 and NGT-25-001-800. S.S. acknowledges partial support for this work from the University of Minnesota and thanks J.C. Roddick for very helpful discussions.
PY - 1987/11/25
Y1 - 1987/11/25
N2 - KAr data has been compiled from over 18 laboratories on the 40Ar39Ar dating standard, MMhb-1. The new recommended age for the monitor is 520.4 ± 1.7 Ma. The interlaboratory precision for K is 1.06% and for Ar is 1.89%. 40Ar-39Ar analyses of MMhb-1 have shown that the 40Ar{black star} 40K ratio is uniform at better than the 0.1% level, thus variations in the conventional determinations are a result of systematic variations and interlaboratory biases. We recommend a set of 40Ar39Ar standards be prepared and adopted by the KAr community to reduce uncertainty in intersample age comparison. Further, an organization like the U.S. National Bureau of Standards should be encouraged to "unconventionally" calibrate these monitors if the precision of which the 40Ar39Ar technique is capable is to be approached.
AB - KAr data has been compiled from over 18 laboratories on the 40Ar39Ar dating standard, MMhb-1. The new recommended age for the monitor is 520.4 ± 1.7 Ma. The interlaboratory precision for K is 1.06% and for Ar is 1.89%. 40Ar-39Ar analyses of MMhb-1 have shown that the 40Ar{black star} 40K ratio is uniform at better than the 0.1% level, thus variations in the conventional determinations are a result of systematic variations and interlaboratory biases. We recommend a set of 40Ar39Ar standards be prepared and adopted by the KAr community to reduce uncertainty in intersample age comparison. Further, an organization like the U.S. National Bureau of Standards should be encouraged to "unconventionally" calibrate these monitors if the precision of which the 40Ar39Ar technique is capable is to be approached.
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U2 - 10.1016/0168-9622(87)90025-X
DO - 10.1016/0168-9622(87)90025-X
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:45949114867
SN - 0168-9622
VL - 66
SP - 27
EP - 34
JO - Chemical Geology: Isotope Geoscience Section
JF - Chemical Geology: Isotope Geoscience Section
IS - 1-2
ER -