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Feasibility Analysis Of The Strontium Ratio Obtained From Pennsylvanian Chondricthian Dentary, Cullen John Erbacher
Feasibility Analysis Of The Strontium Ratio Obtained From Pennsylvanian Chondricthian Dentary, Cullen John Erbacher
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This research was undertaken to determine the amount of time between transgressive and regressive sequences. One of the methods used to determine the amount of missing time in an unconformity is the 87Sr / 86Sr ratio. The 87Sr / 86Sr ratio will be high around brackish and freshwater environments while it will be lower in open marine conditions. Limestones and their constituent parts are susceptible to diagenetic processes that can contaminate or obliterate isotope values contained within the rocks. The purpose of this research was to discover if reliable isotope information could be pulled from Pennsylvanian aged shark teeth. Nine …