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concordia diagrams

concordia diagrams is the plural of concordia diagram.

Meaning of concordia diagram

Noun

concordia diagram (plural concordia diagrams)

  1. Any of several types of diagram, used in connection with uranium–lead dating, in which each axis encodes differently sourced information about the radiometric age of the mineral being dated.
    • The graphing of concordant U-Pb data on a concordia diagram does not provide any information that is not obvious from the individual U-Pb ages themselves. The principal value of the concordia diagram is its unique ability to yield crystallization ages from open systems.1991, G. Brent Dalrymple, The Age of the Earth, Stanford University Press, page 117

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What is concordia diagrams the plural of?
Concordia diagrams is the plural of concordia diagram.

Words near concordia diagrams in the dictionary

  1. Concorde
  2. concorded
  3. Concordes
  4. concordia
  5. concordia diagram
  6. concordia diagrams
  7. Concordia Parish
  8. concordial
  9. concordias
  10. concording
  11. concordism

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