A radiogenic isotope tracer is the ratio of a daughter isotope produced by a long-lived radioactive parent to a stable isotope of the same element, such as or , used to identify the source of a rock rather than to date it. The ratio of a reservoir grows at a rate set by its parent–daughter ratio, and so records the history of that ratio.
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