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  • Thumbnail for Geochronology
    rocks themselves. Absolute geochronology can be accomplished through radioactive isotopes, whereas relative geochronology is provided by tools such as...
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  • Thumbnail for Marine isotope stages
    Marine isotope stages (MIS), marine oxygen-isotope stages, or oxygen isotope stages (OIS), are alternating warm and cool periods in the Earth's paleoclimate...
    17 KB (2,215 words) - 15:18, 23 June 2024
  • most commonly used, other minerals such as monazite (see: monazite geochronology), titanite, and baddeleyite can also be used. Where crystals such as...
    9 KB (1,273 words) - 22:56, 20 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Detrital zircon geochronology
    Detrital zircon geochronology is the science of analyzing the age of zircons deposited within a specific sedimentary unit by examining their inherent...
    40 KB (3,279 words) - 07:09, 4 January 2024
  • The method compares the abundance of a naturally occurring radioactive isotope within the material to the abundance of its decay products, which form...
    45 KB (5,529 words) - 13:39, 28 June 2024
  • separation and measurement of isotopes based on their mass-to-charge ratios. The Re-Os (Rhenium-Osmium) geochronology method is based on the decay of...
    23 KB (2,573 words) - 05:31, 1 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Radiogenic nuclide
    'parent isotope' in a system, the quantity of the radiogenic 'daughter product' is used as a radiometric dating tool (e.g. uranium–lead geochronology). In...
    10 KB (1,161 words) - 23:05, 21 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for James F. Reilly
    West Antarctica, as a research scientist specializing in stable isotope geochronology. In 1979, he started work as an exploration geologist with Santa...
    11 KB (878 words) - 04:15, 23 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Monazite geochronology
    t1/2 represents half-life. Monazite geochronology studies the ratio of parent isotopes to daughter isotopes (isotopic ratio), and calculates how much time...
    56 KB (7,141 words) - 03:37, 20 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Stirling Range
    Era, between 2,016 and 1,215 million years ago (based on U-Th-Pb isotope geochronology of monazite crystals). The sediments were subsequently metamorphosed...
    17 KB (1,873 words) - 17:12, 25 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sensitive high-resolution ion microprobe
    instrument is in uranium-thorium-lead geochronology, although the SHRIMP can be used to measure some other isotope ratio measurements (e.g., δ7Li or δ11B)...
    29 KB (2,508 words) - 06:49, 19 May 2024
  • rule rather than the exception in (U-Th)/He geochronology, indicating an incomplete understanding of the isotope system. Several reasons have been proposed...
    12 KB (1,863 words) - 19:13, 27 June 2024
  • Isotope geochemistry is an aspect of geology based upon the study of natural variations in the relative abundances of isotopes of various elements. Variations...
    21 KB (2,408 words) - 19:03, 1 April 2024
  • intervals and interfaces. Chronostratigraphy relies heavily upon isotope geology and geochronology to derive hard dating of known and well defined rock units...
    6 KB (657 words) - 19:04, 2 March 2024
  • January 2021. Walraven, F.; Frick, C.; Lubala, R. T. (July 1992). "Pb-isotope geochronology of the Schiel complex, northern Transvaal, South Africa". Journal...
    7 KB (669 words) - 00:59, 28 July 2022
  • Cosmogenic nuclides (or cosmogenic isotopes) are rare nuclides (isotopes) created when a high-energy cosmic ray interacts with the nucleus of an in situ...
    13 KB (1,270 words) - 20:31, 19 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Isotope-ratio mass spectrometry
    2005. Radiogenic Isotope Geology 2nd ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp. 21-22. Williams, I.S. (1998), "U-Th-Pb geochronology by ion microprobe"...
    20 KB (2,548 words) - 01:53, 25 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hadean zircon
    uranium-thorium-lead geochronology are two common methods to measure isotope in specific time interval. Highly precise in situ SIMS measurements of oxygen isotopes and...
    44 KB (3,785 words) - 01:30, 19 June 2024
  • reliably date rocks as young as 2,000 years" New Mexico Geochronology Research Laboratory Argon Isotope Facility Archived 2010-05-10 at the Wayback Machine...
    9 KB (1,101 words) - 18:17, 31 March 2024
  • (2022-03-24). "Re-Os geochronology for the Cambrian SPICE event: Insights into euxinia and enhanced continental weathering from radiogenic isotopes". Geology. 50...
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