Blocking temperature

Blocking temperature

"The temperature below which isotopes in a mineral are no longer free to move, at which point the radiometric clock starts."

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* [http://www.wwnorton.com/college/geo/earth2/glossary/b.htm Glossary] , Earth: a Portrait of a Planet. W. W. Norton & Company


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