作者: J. Hiess , D. J. Condon , N. McLean , S. R. Noble
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摘要: The present-day 238U/235U ratio has fundamental implications for uranium-lead geochronology and cosmochronology. A value of 137.88 previously been considered invariant used without uncertainty to calculate terrestrial mineral ages. We report high-precision measurements a suite uranium-bearing minerals from 58 samples representing diverse range lithologies. This data set exhibits in values >5 per mil, with no clear relation any petrogenetic, secular, or regional trends. Variation between comagmatic suggests that fractionation processes operate at magmatic temperatures. mean 137.818 ± 0.045 (2σ) zircon reflects the average uranium isotopic composition variability zircon. distribution is broadly representative crustal “bulk Earth” composition.