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Potassium–argon dating, abbreviated K–Ar dating, is a radiometric dating method used in geochronology and archaeology. It is based on measurement of the product of the radioactive decay of an isotope of potassium (K) into argon (Ar). Potassium is a common element found in many materials, such as micas, clay minerals, tephra, and evaporites. In these materials, the decay product ⁴⁰Ar is able to escape the liquid (molten) rock, but starts to accumulate when the rock solidifies (recrystallizes). Time since recrystallization is calculated by measuring the ratio of the amount of ⁴⁰Ar accumulated to the amount of ⁴⁰K remaining. The long half-life of ⁴⁰K allows the method to be used to calculate the absolute age of samples older than a few thousand years.

The quickly cooled lavas that make nearly ideal samples for K–Ar dating also preserve a record of the direction and intensity of the local magnetic field as the sample cooled past the Curie temperature of iron. The geomagnetic polarity time scale was calibrated largely using K–Ar dating.

Decay series

Template:Further2 Potassium naturally occurs in 3 isotopes – ³⁹K (93.2581%), ⁴⁰K (0.0117%), ⁴¹K (6.7302%). The radioactive isotope ⁴⁰K decays with a half-life of Template:Val to ⁴⁰Ca and ⁴⁰Ar. Conversion to stable ⁴⁰Ca occurs via electron emission (beta decay) in 89.1% of decay events. Conversion to stable ⁴⁰Ar occurs via positron emission (inverse beta decay) in the remaining 10.9% of decay events.

Argon, being a noble gas, is a minor component of most rock samples of geochronological interest: it does not bind with other atoms in a crystal lattice. When ⁴⁰K decays to ⁴⁰Ar (Argon), the atom typically remains trapped within the lattice because it is larger than the spaces between the other atoms in a mineral crystal. But it can escape into the surrounding region when the right conditions are met, such as change in pressure and/or temperature. ⁴⁰Ar atoms are able to diffuse through and escape from molten magma because most crystals have melted and the atoms are no longer trapped. Entrained argon—diffused argon that fails to escape from the magma—may again become trapped in crystals when magma cools to become solid rock again. After the recrystallization of magma, more ⁴⁰K will decay and ⁴⁰Ar will again accumulate, along with the entrained argon atoms, trapped in the mineral crystals. Measurement of the quantity of ⁴⁰Ar atoms is used to compute the amount of time that has passed since a rock sample has solidified.

Calcium is common in the crust, with ⁴⁰Ca being the most abundant isotope. Despite ⁴⁰Ca being the favored daughter nuclide, its usefulness in dating is limited since a great many decay events are required for a small change in relative abundance, and also the amount of calcium originally present may not be known.

Formula

The ratio of the amount of ⁴⁰Ar to that of ⁴⁰K is directly related to the time elapsed since the rock was cool enough to trap the Ar by the following equation:

$t=\frac{t_{\frac{1}{2}}}{\ln (2)}\ln \left(\frac{K_f+\frac{A{r}_f}{0.109}}{K_f}\right)$

• t is time elapsed
• t_1/2 is the half-life of ⁴⁰K
• K_f is the amount of ⁴⁰K remaining in the sample
• Ar_f is the amount of ⁴⁰Ar found in the sample.

The scale factor 0.109 corrects for the unmeasured fraction of ⁴⁰K which decayed into ⁴⁰Ca; the sum of the measured ⁴⁰K and the scaled amount of ⁴⁰Ar gives the amount of ⁴⁰K which was present at the beginning of the elapsed time period. In practice, each of these values may be expressed as a proportion of the total potassium present, as only relative, not absolute, quantities are required.

Obtaining the data

To obtain the content ratio of isotopes ⁴⁰Ar to ⁴⁰K in a rock or mineral, the amount of Ar is measured by mass spectrometry of the gases released when a rock sample is melted in vacuum. The potassium is quantified by flame photometry or atomic absorption spectroscopy.

The amount of ⁴⁰K is rarely measured directly. Rather, the more common ³⁹K is measured and that quantity is then multiplied by the accepted ratio of ⁴⁰K/³⁹K (i.e., 0.0117%/93.2581%, see above).

The amount of ³⁶Ar may also be required to be measured.

Assumptions

According to Template:Harvtxt the following assumptions must be true for computed dates to be accepted as representing the true age of the rock:

• The parent nuclide, Template:SimpleNuclide, decays at a rate independent of its physical state and is not affected by differences in pressure or temperature. This is a well founded major assumption, common to all dating methods based on radioactive decay. Although changes in the electron capture partial decay constant for Template:SimpleNuclide possibly may occur at high pressures, theoretical calculations indicate that for pressures experienced within a body of the size of the Earth the effects are negligibly small.

• The Template:SimpleNuclide/Template:SimpleNuclide ratio in nature is constant so the Template:SimpleNuclide is rarely measured directly, but is assumed to be 0.0117% of the total potassium. Unless some other process is active at the time of cooling, this is a very good assumption for terrestrial samples.

• The radiogenic argon measured in a sample was produced by in situ decay of Template:SimpleNuclide in the interval since the rock crystallized or was recrystallized. Violations of this assumption are not uncommon. Well-known examples of incorporation of extraneous Template:SimpleNuclide include chilled glassy deep-sea basalts that have not completely outgassed preexisting Template:SimpleNuclide*, and the physical contamination of a magma by inclusion of older xenolitic material. The Ar–Ar dating method was developed to measure the presence of extraneous argon.

• Great care is needed to avoid contamination of samples by absorption of nonradiogenic Template:SimpleNuclide from the atmosphere. The equation may be corrected by subtracting from the Template:SimpleNuclide_measured value the amount present in the air where Template:SimpleNuclide is 295.5 times more plentiful than Template:SimpleNuclide. Template:SimpleNuclide_decayed = Template:SimpleNuclide_measured − 295.5 × Template:SimpleNuclide_measured.

• The sample must have remained a closed system since the event being dated. Thus, there should have been no loss or gain of Template:SimpleNuclide or Template:SimpleNuclide*, other than by radioactive decay of Template:SimpleNuclide. Departures from this assumption are quite common, particularly in areas of complex geological history, but such departures can provide useful information that is of value in elucidating thermal histories. A deficiency of Template:SimpleNuclide in a sample of a known age can indicate a full or partial melt in the thermal history of the area. Reliability in the dating of a geological feature is increased by sampling disparate areas which have been subjected to slightly different thermal histories.

Both flame photometry and mass spectrometry are destructive tests, so particular care is needed to ensure that the aliquots used are truly representative of the sample. Ar–Ar dating is a similar technique which compares isotopic ratios from the same portion of the sample to avoid this problem.

Applications

Due to the long half-life, the technique is most applicable for dating minerals and rocks more than 100,000 years old. For shorter timescales, it is likely that not enough Argon 40 will have had time to accumulate in order to be accurately measurable. K–Ar dating was instrumental in the development of the geomagnetic polarity time scale. Although it finds the most utility in geological applications, it plays an important role in archaeology. One archeological application has been in bracketing the age of archeological deposits at Olduvai Gorge by dating lava flows above and below the deposits. It has also been indispensable in other early east African sites with a history of volcanic activity such as Hadar, Ethiopia. The K–Ar method continues to have utility in dating clay mineral diagenesis. Clay minerals are less than 2 micrometres thick and cannot easily be irradiated for Ar–Ar analysis because Ar recoils from the crystal lattice.

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