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Chronology is the backbone of history, and there is a wise saying stating there is no history without a chronology. Earths evolutionary history is built up by geochronology, i.e. time benchmarks upon which the geological history is built up step by step over its total time period of about 4.5 billion years. The first marker in this history is the Jack Hills zircon from Australia dated at about 4.4 GA. The most detailed records come from seasonal changes within annual varves. Stratigraphy provides the basic chronological ordering of layers by layers, units by units, fossil assemblage by assemblage, varves by varves, growth zone by growth zone, etc. The radiometric techniques implied the introduction of absolute age determinations. This book includes a combination of methodological presentations and related case studies, from where we learn about practical problems and achievements. Therefore, the book should be of basic interest both for scientists in their practical in field and laboratory, as well as for general educational purpose.

Geochronometry. --- Dating of fossils --- Dating of rocks --- Fossils --- Geological chronometry --- Geological time --- Rocks --- Time measurements --- Dating --- Measurement --- Geology & the lithosphere

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Geochronometry --- Radioactive dating --- Radiocarbon dating --- Radioactive dating. --- Geochronometry. --- Radiocarbon dating. --- Archaeology --- Carbon dating --- Carbon-14 dating --- Dating, Radiocarbon --- Dating of fossils --- Dating of rocks --- Fossils --- Geological chronometry --- Geological time --- Rocks --- Age determination, Radiometric --- Dating, Radioactive --- Dating, Radiometric --- Fission dating methods --- Radiometric age determination --- Radiometric dating --- Dating --- Measurement --- Archaeological dating --- Time measurements --- Radioactivity

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This edited volume offers archaeologists and archaeometrists the latest technical information, the fundamentals of provenance studies, instrumentation used in these investigations, and strategies for the dating and interpretation of archaeological materia

Hydration rind dating --- Obsidian --- Glassware, Ancient. --- Datation d'hydratation d'obsidienne --- Obsidienne --- Verrerie antique --- Obsidian. --- Hydration rind dating. --- Dating, Hydration rind --- Obsidian dating --- Obsidian hydration dating --- Archaeological dating --- Geochronometry --- Geology, Stratigraphic --- Iceland agate --- Hyalopsite --- Volcanic ash, tuff, etc. --- Ancient glassware

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"Radioactivity is like a clock that never needs adjusting," writes Doug Macdougall. "It would be hard to design a more reliable timekeeper." In Nature's Clocks, Macdougall tells how scientists who were seeking to understand the past arrived at the ingenious techniques they now use to determine the age of objects and organisms. By examining radiocarbon (C-14) dating-the best known of these methods-and several other techniques that geologists use to decode the distant past, Macdougall unwraps the last century's advances, explaining how they reveal the age of our fossil ancestors such as "Lucy," the timing of the dinosaurs' extinction, and the precise ages of tiny mineral grains that date from the beginning of the earth's history. In lively and accessible prose, he describes how the science of geochronology has developed and flourished. Relating these advances through the stories of the scientists themselves-James Hutton, William Smith, Arthur Holmes, Ernest Rutherford, Willard Libby, and Clair Patterson-Macdougall shows how they used ingenuity and inspiration to construct one of modern science's most significant accomplishments: a timescale for the earth's evolution and human prehistory.

Geochronometry. --- Geological time. --- Radioisotopes in geology. --- Radioactive isotope geology --- Isotope geology --- Age of rocks --- Geochronology --- Geochrony --- Rocks --- Time, Geological --- Chronology --- Historical geology --- Sequence stratigraphy --- Dating of fossils --- Dating of rocks --- Fossils --- Geological chronometry --- Geological time --- Time measurements --- Age --- Dating --- Measurement

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Thermochronology, the study of the thermal history of rocks, enables us to quantify the nature and timing of tectonic processes. First published in 2006, Quantitative Thermochronology is a robust review of isotopic ages, and presents a range of numerical modeling techniques to allow the physical implications of isotopic age data to be explored. The authors provide analytical, semi-analytical and numerical solutions to the heat transfer equation in a range of tectonic settings and under varying boundary conditions. They then illustrate their modeling approach built around a large number of case studies. The benefits of different thermochronological techniques are also described. Computer programs on an accompanying website at www.cambridge.org/9781107407152 are introduced through the text and provide a means of solving the heat transport equation in the deforming Earth to predict the ages of rocks and compare them directly to geological and geochronological data. Several short tutorials, with hints and solutions, are also included.

Earth temperature. --- Geochronometry. --- Heat --- Plate tectonics. --- Radioactive dating. --- Transmission. --- Tectonics, Plate --- Geodynamics --- Heat transfer --- Thermal transfer --- Transmission of heat --- Energy transfer --- Ground temperature --- Surface air temperature of the earth --- Surface temperature of the earth --- Temperature --- Age determination, Radiometric --- Dating, Radioactive --- Dating, Radiometric --- Fission dating methods --- Radiometric age determination --- Radiometric dating --- Geochronometry --- Radioactivity --- Dating of fossils --- Dating of rocks --- Fossils --- Geological chronometry --- Geological time --- Rocks --- Time measurements --- Measurement --- Dating