Thermochronological Methods
Book (italiano):
Over the course of the past half century, thermochronology (or thermochronometry) has developed from merely fission-track dating and being "a hobby-horse of nuclear physicists" to a broad field incorporating a whole spectrum of low-temperature radiometric methods for the earth sciences. This volume, edited by Lisker (U. Bremen, Germany), Ventura (U. Bremen, Germany), and Glasmacher (Ruprecht-Karls-U. Heidelberg, Germany), contains 21 papers describing techniques and applications within the field. Following an overview of the field, papers describe recent methodological advances, including an automated counting system for fission tracks in natural minerals, the use of laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry for measuring uranium concentration for apatite and zircon fission-track chronometry, and detrital thermochronology based on measuring Nd isotopic compositions on single apatites by laser ablation ICP-MS, to cite a few examples. The remaining papers address applications to the long-term landscape evolution of various geological settings, to provenance studies, and to small-scale tectonic processes. Distributed in the US by The Geological Society. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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