Articles | Volume 6, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-6-429-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-6-429-2024
Research article
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26 Jul 2024
Research article |  | 26 Jul 2024

The daughter–parent plot: a tool for analyzing thermochronological data

Birk Härtel and Eva Enkelmann

Model code and software

Incaplot (Isochron calculation and plotting) Birk Härtel https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8233941

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Short summary
We present a new data analysis workflow for thermochronological data based on plots of radiogenic daughter vs. radioactive parent concentration. The daughter–parent relationship helps to identify the sources of age variation. Our workflow classifies the daughter–parent relationship and provides further suggestions, e.g., if a dataset can be described by a sample age and which type of sample age to report. We also introduce Incaplot, which is software for creating daughter–parent plots.