English Explanatory Dictionary

Wetherill diagram

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A type of concordia diagram, used in the context of uranium–lead dating, whose axes are the ratios ²⁰⁶Pb/²³⁸U and ²³⁷Pb/²³⁵Pb.

Word forms

Wetherill diagram Wetherill diagrams Wetherill concordia diagram

Etymology

Named after American physicist George Wetherill. From circa 1956.

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