铀铅(uranium lead),是指铀系母体同位素238U衰变的最终产物,质量数为206的铅,常用206Pb表示。
就像我之前说到的,铀铅年代测定法已经存在一段时间了。
Like I said before, Uranium-Lead Dating has been with us for a while.
因为有这种新的铀铅定年方法,我们才得以确定我们对大峡谷的一个主要假设是错误的。
Because of this, this new way of doing Uranium-Lead Dating, we've been able to determine that one of our major assumptions about the Grand Canyon was wrong.
在这种情况下,铀铅定年法被用来确定样本中一半的砂岩是在阿巴拉契亚山脉花岗岩形成的同时形成的。
In this case, Uranium-Lead Dating was used to establish that half of the sandstone in the samples was formed at the same time the granite in the Appalachian Mountains was formed.
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