geochronology

In 2009 a research team proposed that the skeleton should be dated at about 4,700 years old, based on uranium geochronology.

Rubidium dating was successful and became an accepted tool of geochronology.

It is considered also a branch of geochronology.

Geochronology, as a separate sub-discipline, only appears in Rolfe's second list.

Some well known groups of northwestern Europe have in the past also been used as units for chronostratigraphy and geochronology.

It has the rank of an age (geochronology) or stage (chronostratigraphy).

He established programs in geochronology, experimental petrology, and mineralogy.

He also pioneered the discipline of geochronology.

After the war, he returned to Minnesota where he worked on geochronology, the upper atmosphere, space science and noble gases.

His promotion of the theory over the next decades he earned the nickname of Father of modern geochronology.

In 1964, he obtained his PhD in geochronology.

It is a subfield within geology, and is closely associated with geochronology.

De Geer, G. (1912), A geochronology of the last 12000 years.

Major focuses include geochronology, comparative geology, and petrology.

Together with stratigraphic principles, radiometric dating methods are used in geochronology to establish the geological time scale.

Rare earth elements change through time in small quantities (ppm, parts per million), so their proportion can be used for geochronology and dating fossils.

An example within the earth sciences might be the development of radiometric age dating, or geochronology, from the physics of radioactive decay.

Historical development of zircon geochronology.

Geochronology has identified several episodes of deformation, accretion, subduction and magmatism.

Radioactive elements are used for radiometric dating, the primary method for establishing an absolute time scale in geochronology.

However, De Geer is most famous for discovering varves and pioneering their use in geochronology.

The dating of these fossil finds is considered a starting point for the collaboration of paleoanthropology and geochronology.

For igneous rocks such as basalt, commonly used methods include potassium-argon and argon-argon geochronology.

Such an application of geochronology was unprecedented; OH 5 became the first hominin to be dated by that method.

Attracted by the school's program in geochronology, Haynes entered the University of Arizona at Tucson for graduate study.