The Earth's Age and Geochronology
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The Earth's Age and Geochronology

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The Earth's Age and Geochronology

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The Earth's Age and Geochronology provides an outline of geochronological methods, applications, and interpretations. This book discusses the fossil fission track method of dating. Organized into 12 chapters, this book begins with an overview of an accurate chronometer for measuring time intervals that must contain some sort of mechanism in which it operates at a predictable or known rate. This text then discusses the methodology of dating as well as the importance of long cooling histories. Other chapters consider the application of the experimental method to idealized, undisturbed systems. This book discusses as well the concept that in plutonic environments daughter isotope retention may often not commence until long after crystallization, or the peak of metamorphism. The final chapter deals with the applications of geochronology wherein the effects of selectivity will be particularly evident. This book is a valuable resource for nuclear physicists, astronomers, geologists, cosmologists, geochronologists, experimentalists, and scientists.

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Publisher
Pergamon
Year
2013
ISBN
9781483279466
Topic
Ciencias físicas
Subtopic
Geografía

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. The Earth's Age and Geochronology
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. PREFACE
  6. CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION
  7. CHAPTER 2. RADIOACTIVITY
  8. CHAPTER 3. EXPERIMENTAL METHODS
  9. CHAPTER 4. THE DATING OF UNDISTURBED MINERALS AND ROCKS
  10. CHAPTER 5. DATING DISTURBED MINERALS AND ROCKS
  11. CHAPTER 6. LEAD ISOTOPE METHODS
  12. CHAPTER 7. THE GENERAL PROBLEM OF INTERPRETATION
  13. CHAPTER 8. THE PHANEROZOIC TIME-SCALE
  14. CHAPTER 9. THE PULSE OF THE EARTH
  15. CHAPTER 10. REVERSALS OF THE EARTH'S MAGNETIC FIELD
  16. CHAPTER 11. METEORITES
  17. CHAPTER 12. THE AGE OF THE EARTH
  18. REFERENCES
  19. INDEX