{"id":108028,"date":"2017-12-11T11:02:05","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T11:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/research\/?post_type=facilities&#038;p=108028"},"modified":"2021-10-01T05:44:34","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T05:44:34","slug":"wa-argon-isotope-facility-waaif","status":"publish","type":"facilities","link":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/research\/facilities\/wa-argon-isotope-facility-waaif\/","title":{"rendered":"WA Argon Isotope Facility"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/wa-argon-1920x1080-1-1-1000x500.jpg\" alt=\"Inside a research lab\" class=\"wp-image-118479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/wa-argon-1920x1080-1-1-1000x500.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/wa-argon-1920x1080-1-1-740x370.jpg 740w, https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/wa-argon-1920x1080-1-1-480x240.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/wa-argon-1920x1080-1-1-1260x630.jpg 1260w, https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/wa-argon-1920x1080-1-1-1520x760.jpg 1520w, https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/wa-argon-1920x1080-1-1-1920x960.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The WA Argon Isotope Facility is part of Curtin&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/jdlc.curtin.edu.au\/facilities\/western-australian-argon-isotope-facility\/\">John de Laeter Centre<\/a>. The&nbsp;40Ar\/39Ar dating method is used to measure the age and timing of a large variety of geological processes, from meteorite samples as old as the Earth (4.5 billion years) to the age of historical events such as the Vesuvius eruption (79 AD).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ar technique can be applied to any rocks and minerals that contain K (e.g. hornblende, sanidine, plagioclase and basalts).&nbsp;40Ar\/39Ar method is also used to date a myriad of other geological events such as volcanism, tectonic plate movements, mountain building rates, sediment formation, weathering and erosion, hydrothermal fluid movements and alteration and diagenesis of minerals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jdlc.curtin.edu.au\/facilities\/western-australian-argon-isotope-facility\/\">Learn more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109210,"template":"","faculties":[51],"research_areas":[45],"class_list":["post-108028","facilities","type-facilities","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","faculties-science-and-engineering","research_areas-resources-mining-and-minerals"],"acf":{"video":"","facility_info":{"video":""}},"featured_image":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/facilities\/108028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/facilities"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/facilities"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/facilities\/108028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/research\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"faculties","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculties?post=108028"},{"taxonomy":"research_areas","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research_areas?post=108028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}