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Synchronizing Rock Clocks of Earth History
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Calibration of the geological time scale is achieved by independent radioisotopic and astronomical dating, but these techniques yield discrepancies of ∼1.0% or more, limiting our ability to reconstruct Earth history. To overcome this fundamental setback, we compared astronomical and 40 Ar/ 39 Ar ages of tephras in marine deposits in Morocco to calibrate the age of Fish Canyon sanidine, the most widely used standard in 40 Ar/ 39 Ar geochronology. This calibration results in a more precise older age of 28.201 ± 0.046 million years ago (Ma) and reduces the 40 Ar/ 39 Ar method's absolute uncertainty from ∼2.5 to 0.25%. In addition, this calibration provides tight constraints for the astronomical tuning of pre-Neogene successions, resulting in a mutually consistent age of ∼65.95 Ma for the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary.
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“If the Kuiper et al. (2008) calibration is more accurate, the Western Ghats age model inferred from red-bole zircon U-Pb data (Schoene et al., 2015(Schoene et al., , 2019) ) would be systematically 300-500 ka older than the 40 Ar/ 39 Ar ages (Renne et al., 2015;Sprain et al., 2019), clearly a much greater bias than is evident in the MP.”
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- Authors
- Kuiper, K. F., Deino, A., Hilgen, F. J., Krijgsman, W., Renne, P. R., & Wijbrans, J. R.
- Affiliations
- Faculty of Geosciences, Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, Budapestlaan 4, 3584 CD Utrecht, Netherlands.
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- Science
- Published
- 2008-04-25
- Volume
- 320
- Issue
- 5875
- Pages
- 500-504
- ISSN
- 0036-8075
- 1095-9203
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- 1,345
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- Language
- en
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