concordia
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4ADJ.
above
VERB + CONCORDIA
carbonate, move, points, sample, ship
CONCORDIA + NOUN
aground, cruise, diagrams, direction, loss, luxury, uranium
PREP.
in, off, on
Definitions
noun
A set of plotted points, appearing as a curve on a concordia diagram or isochron diagram, representing sample data from rock of the same age; the condition of being a member of said set (or on said curve).
Points above concordia indicate uranium loss and those below indicate uranium gain.
1994 [1988 Elsevier], H.-G. Attendorn, R. Bowen, Isotopes in the Earth Sciences, Chapman & Hall, page 131, Such lower intersections of resultant discordias with U-Th-Pb concordias are not significant in terms of geological time, merely changes which took place in the Th/U ratios or lead isotope ratios through the factors alluded to above.
name
The goddess of harmony and concord. She is the Roman equivalent to Harmonia.
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5Points above concordia indicate uranium loss and those below indicate uranium gain.
Wiktionary1994 [1988 Elsevier], H.-G. Attendorn, R. Bowen, Isotopes in the Earth Sciences, Chapman & Hall, page 131, Such lower intersections of resultant discordias with U-Th-Pb concordias are not significant
WiktionaryThe addition of U to a carbonate sample on concordia causes the point to move off concordia in the direction of the origin.[…]The patterns that develop in the ^{₂₃₁}Pa-^{₂₃₀}Th concordia diagrams are
WiktionaryHave you heard about the sinking of the Costa Concordia luxury cruise ship?
Tatoeba · #1362703Salvage workers have begun an effort to upright the wrecked cruise ship Costa Concordia, which ran aground 20 months ago off the coast of Italy.
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