Geol.732 QUATERNARY GEOCHRONOLOGY (3 CH)
Dating methods in quaternary; radiocarbon dating: basic principles, radiocarbon measurement, sources of error in radiocarbon dating, calibration of the radiocarbon timescale, application of radiocarbon dating; dating using long-lived and short-lived radioactive isotopes: argon-isotope dating, uranium-series dating, cosmogenic nuclide dating, dating using short-lived isotopes; radiation exposure dating: luminescence dating, electron spin resonance dating, fission track dating; dating using annually banded records: dendrochronology, varve chronology, lichenometry, annual layers in glaciers ice, speleothems, corals, molluscs; relative dating methods: rock surface weathering, obsidian hydration dating, pedogenesis, relative dating of fossil bone, amino acid geochronology; techniques for establishing age equivalence: oxygen isotope chronostratigraphy, tephrochronology, paleomagnetism, palaeosols; dating the future.
Recommended Books:
- Quaternary Dating Methods by Walker, M., 2005. John Wiley & Sons Inc.
- Quaternary Geochronology: Methods and Applications by Noller, J.S., Sowers, J.M. and Lettis, W.R., 2000. Washington, DC: American Geophysical Union reference Shelf 4.