U-TH-PB DATING: AN EXAMPLE OF FALSE ISOCHRONS
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The concerns raised by Zheng [28] regarding U-Pb isochrons are warranted. At Koongarra a 207Pb/206Pb isochron produced from 11 hand-picked uraninite and galena grains, plus four whole-rock samples, yields an age of 863 Ma, the same as a near-concordant age from one of the uraninite grains. Nine weathered whole-rock samples yield an isochron age of 1270Ma, while 113 soil samples produce an excellent isochron with an age of 1445Ma. All of these ages are geologically meaningless. While the apparent isochron produced by the soil samples may be identified as a mixing line, produced by the mixing of radiogenic Pb with common or background Pb in the surrounding rocks and soils, even this explanation strains credulity because the samples come from up to 17km away from known uranium mineralization, and a few of the soil samples represent different rock types. Not only then has open system behavior of these isotopes been demonstrated, but apparent isochrons and their derived ages are invariably geologically meaningless. Thus none of the assumptions used to interpret the U-Th-Pb isotopic system to yield ages can be valid. If these assumptions were valid, then the 232Th/208Pb age of 0Ma for three of the five uraninite samples should be taken seriously. Creationists should therefore not be intimidated by claims that U-Th-Pb radiometric dating has proved the presumed great antiquity of the earth, and the strata and fossils of the so-called geological column. "