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A volcanic ash fall was radio metrically dated using the potassium 40 to argon 40 and ru...

A volcanic ash fall was radio metrically dated using the potassium 40 to argon 40 and rubidium 87 to strontium 87 isotope pairs. The isotope pairs yielded distinctly different ages. What possible explanation could be offered as to why these two isotope pairs yielded different ages? What would you do to rectify the discrepancy in ages?

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