This volume provides an overview of the physical and chemical foundations of dating methods and the applications of dating methods in the geological sciences, biology, and archaeology.

Table of Contents

• Contributors
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Acasta Gneiss Complex - Samuel Bowring, Tom Chacko, Larry M. Heaman and Jesse Reimink
• Accelerator Mass Spectrometry - A. J. Timothy Jull and George S. Burr
• Age of the Earth - Peter Barry and Larry Taylor
• Alpha Spectroscopy - Jeroen W. Thompson
• Alpine Terranes (K–Ar/Ar–Ar) - Jan R. Wijbrans
• Amino Acid - John F. Wehmiller
• Amino Acid Racemization Dating - Beatrice Demarchi and Matthew Collins
• Amino Acid Racemization, Biostratigraphy - Matthew Kosnik
• Amino Acid Racemization, Coastal Sediments - John F. Wehmiller
• Amino Acid Racemization, Eolianites - Colin V. Murray-Wallace
• Amino Acid Racemization, Fluvial and Lacustrine Sediments (AAR) - John F. Wehmiller
• Amino Acid Racemization, Marine Sediments - Darrell Kaufman
• Amino Acid Racemization, Paleoclimate - Matthew Collins and Beatrice Demarchi
• Ancient Inks: A Forensic Art Historical Perspective - Howell G. M. Edwards
• Apatite - W. Jack Rink
• Aquifer Characteristics (U-Series) - Don Porcelli
• Ar–Ar and K–Ar Dating - James K. W. Lee
• Archaeomagnetic Dating - Cathy Batt
• Band Structure - Jeroen W. Thompson
• Beta Counter - Jeroen W. Thompson
• Big Bang - Gary R. Huss
• Biostratigraphy - Marie-Pierre Aubry
• Bivalve Sclerochronology - Donna M. Surge and Bernd R. Schöne
• Bomb Carbon - George S. Burr
• Bones (U-Series) - Alistair W. G. Pike
• 14C in Plant Macrofossils - Christine Hatté and A. J. Timothy Jull
• Carbonates, Lacustrine (U-Series) - Mordechai Stein
• Carbonates, Marine Carbonates (U-Series) - Claudine H. Stirling
• Carbonates, Pedogenic (U-Series) - Warren D. Sharp
• Carbonates, Speleothem Archaeological (U-Series) - Dirk Hoffmann
• Carbonates, Speleothem Climatic (U-Series) - David A. Richards
• Chemical Weathering (U-Series) - Anthony Dosseto
• Chert - L. Paul Knauth
• Chromatography - John F. Wehmiller
• Clays and Glauconites (K–Ar/Ar–Ar) - Horst Zwingmann
• Continental Drift (Paleomagnetism) - Trond H. Torsvik, Pavel V. Doubrovine and Mathew Domeier
• Corals (Sclerochronology) - Kristine L. DeLong
• Crustal Sulfide Minerals (Re–Os) - Robert A. Creaser
• Dendrochronology, Dwellings - Stephen E. Nash
• Dendrochronology, Entomology - Barry Cooke
• Dendrochronology, Fire Regimes - Peter M. Brown
• Dendrochronology, Progress - Laia Andreu-Hayles and Caroline Leland
• Dendrochronology, Surficial Processes - Markus Stoffel, Juan A. Ballesteros-Cánovas and Christophe Corona
• Dendrochronology, Volcanic Eruptions - Franco Biondi
• Early Life on Earth - David Wacey
• Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) Dating of Coral - Gerhard Schellmann and Ulrich Radtke
• Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) Dating of Fossil Tooth Enamel - Mathieu Duval
• Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) Dating, General Principles - Anne Skinner
• Electron Spin Resonance Spectrometer - Jeroen W. Thompson
• Environmental Releases - Robert Morrison
• Exhumation (Thermochronology) - Pieter van der Beek
• Extraterrestrial Materials (K–Ar/Ar–Ar) - Timothy Swindle
• Fault Zone (Thermochronology) - Ben van der Pluijm and Chris Hall
• Faults (U-Series) - Perach Nuriel
• Feldspar, Infrared-Stimulated Luminescence - Mayank Jain
• Feldspars - Michel Lamothe
• Fission Track Dating and Thermochronology - Andrew J. W. Gleadow and Christian Seiler
• Gene Sequencing - Jessica A. Thomas
• Geomagnetism - Vadim A. Kravchinsky
• Glacial Landscape (Cosmogenic Nuclide) - Joerg M. Schaefer
• Groundwater Dating with Atmospheric Halogenated Compounds - Karl B. Haase and Eurybiades Busenberg
• Historical Development of Dating Methods - James M. Mattinson
• Hominid Evolution Timescale - Antoine Balzeau
• Hydrocarbons/Rhenium–Osmium (Re–Os): Organic-Rich Sedimentary Rocks - David Selby, Vivien M. Cumming, Alan D. Rooney and Alexander J. Finlay
• Hydrothermal Ores (Thermochronology) - István Márton
• Ice Cores - Anders Svensson
• Impact Glass (Fission Tracks) - Giulio Bigazzi and Maria Laura Balestrieri
• Index Fossil - Peter Harries
• Isua Supracrustal Belt, West Greenland: Geochronology - Vickie C. Bennett and Allen P. Nutman
• Jack Hills Zircon - Simon A. Wilde
• Kimberlites (K–Ar/Ar–Ar) - David Phillips
• Lacustrine Environments (14C) - Susan Zimmerman and Amy Myrbo
• Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Mass Spectrometer (LA ICP-MS) - Paul Sylvester
• Lichenometry - William B. Bull
• Lucy - William H. Kimbel
• Lu–Hf Dating: The Lu–Hf Isotope System - Jeff Vervoort
• Luminescence Dating - Geoffrey A. T. Duller
• Luminescence Dating of Archaeological Sediments - James Feathers
• Luminescence Dating, Deep-Sea Marine and Lacustrine - Helen M. Roberts
• Luminescence Dating, Dose Rates - Guillaume Guérin
• Luminescence Dating, History - Ludwig Zöller and Günther A. Wagner
• Luminescence Dating, Instrumentation - Kristina Jørkov Thomsen
• Luminescence Dating, Loess - Helen M. Roberts
• Luminescence Dating, Meteorites - Derek W. G. Sears
• Luminescence Dating, Shell-Rich Deposits - Robert Hendricks and Alex Hodson
• Luminescence Dating, Single-Grain Dose Distribution - Richard G. Roberts and Zenobia Jacobs
• Luminescence Dating, Uncertainties and Age Range - Jakob Wallinga and Alastair C. Cunningham
• Luminescence, Biogenic Carbonates - Geoffrey A. T. Duller
• Luminescence, Coastal Sediments - Barbara Mauz
• Luminescence, Colluvial Sediments - Andreas Lang
• Luminescence, Desert Dunes - Matt Telfer
• Luminescence, Earthquake and Tectonic Activity - Morteza Fattahi
• Luminescence, Flints and Stones - Daniel Richter
• Luminescence, Fluvial Sediments - Amanda Keen-Zebert
• Luminescence, Geomorphological Processes - Stephen Tooth
• Luminescence, Glacial Sediments - Geoffrey A. T. Duller
• Luminescence, Martian Sediments - Regina DeWitt
• Luminescence, Pottery and Bricks - Ian Bailiff
• Luminescence, Rock Surfaces - Reza Sohbati
• Luminescence, Soils - Arjun M. Heimsath
• Luminescence, Volcanic Rocks - Sumiko Tsukamoto
• Magnetic Anomalies - Roi Granot
• Magnetic Chronology - Manuel Calvo-Rathert
• Magnetometer - Vicente Soler Javaloyes
• Magnetostratigraphic Dating - Miguel Garces
• Marine Isotope Stratigraphy - Galen P. Halverson
• Marine Varves - Konrad A. Hughen
• Mass Spectrometry - James B. Paces, Dominique Weis and Trevor R. Ireland
• Metamorphic Terranes (K–Ar/40Ar/39Ar) - Jan R. Wijbrans
• Meteoric 10Be - Jane Willenbring
• Meteorites (36Cl) - Kees Welten
• Meteorites (Lu–Hf) - Audrey Bouvier
• Meteorites (U–Pb) - Yuri Amelin
• Meteorites, Rubidium–Strontium, and Samarium–Neodymium Chronology - Lars Borg
• Minerals (40Ar–39Ar) - Simon Kelley, Clare Warren and Camilla Wilkinson
• Model Ages (Sm–Nd) - Alan P. Dickin
• Molecular Clock Calibration - Rachel Warnock
• Molecular Clocks - Simon Y. W. Ho
• Molecular Clocks, Human Evolution - Simon Y. W. Ho and Phillip Endicott
• Molecular Clocks, Relaxed Variant - Simon Y. W. Ho
• Molecular Dating of Evolutionary Events - David Duchene and Lindell Bromham
• Molecular Rate Variation (Molecular Clocks) - Robert Lanfear
• Molluscs, Foraminifera, and Other Carbonate Fossils - Bonnie A. B. Blackwell
• Neutron Activation Analysis - Ron Hancock
• Noble Gas Mass Spectrometer - Leah E. Morgan
• Obsidian Hydration Dating - Ioannis Liritzis
• Paleosol - Gary E. Stinchcomb
• 210Pb Dating - Peter W. Swarzenski
• Peat (14C) - Philippa Ascough
• Planetary Surfaces (Cratering Rate) - Stephanie C. Werner and Wolf Uwe Reimold
• Polymerase Chain Reaction DNA Amplification - Martyna Molak
• Potassium–Argon (Argon–Argon), Structural Fabrics - Michael A. Cosca
• Quartz - Peter J. Heaney
• Quartz Defects, Optically Stimulated Luminescence and Thermoluminescence - Marco Martini
• Radiation Defect - Jeroen W. Thompson
• Radiation Dose Rate - Grzegorz Adamiec
• Radiation and Radioactivity - Regina DeWitt
• Radioactive Decay Constants: A Review - W. Jack Rink and Larry M. Heaman
• Radiocarbon Dating - A. J. Timothy Jull and George S. Burr
• Radiocarbon Dating of Marine Carbonates - Quan Hua
• Radiocarbon Dating of Terrestrial Carbonates - Jeffrey S. Pigati
• Radioluminescence (RL) - Tobias Lauer
• Rb–Sr Dating - Oliver Nebel
• Rb–Sr Geochronology (Igneous Rocks) - Tod Waight
• Rhenium–Osmium Dating (Meteorites) - Richard J. Walker
• Rhenium–Osmium Geochronology: Sulfides, Shales, Oils, and Mantle - Holly Stein and Judith Hannah
• Rubidium–Strontium Dating, Hydrothermal Events - Shu'nichi Nakai
• Sea Level Change (U-Series) - Christina Gallup
• Seawater Sr Curve - Galen P. Halverson and Lucie Hubert-Théou
• Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (SIMS) - Trevor R. Ireland
• Sediment Mixing Rate, 210Pb and 234Th - Joseph M. Smoak
• Sediment, ESR - Helene Tissoux
• Sedimentary Rocks (Rb-Sr Geochronology) - Tod Waight
• Sediments, Terrestrial (Paleomagnetism) - Wout Krijgsman and Gillian Turner
• Single-Crystal Laser Fusion - James K. W. Lee
• Skeletal Remains (14C) - Gregory W. L. Hodgins
• Sm–Nd Dating - Richard W. Carlson
• Stellar Chronology - Trevor R. Ireland
• Tephrochronology - David J. Lowe and Brent Alloway
• Terrestrial Cosmogenic Nuclide Dating - John Gosse and Jeff Klein
• Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometer (TIMS) - Roland Mundil
• Thermochronology, Detrital Zircon - John I. Garver
• Thermochronology, Landform Evolution - Thibaud Simon-Labric
• Thermochronology, Meteorites - Kyoungwon Min
• Tsunamigenic Sediments - Gloria I. López
• Ujaraaluk Unit (Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt) - Jonathan O'Neil
• Uranium Series, Ice - Stephanie A. Ewing
• Uranium Series, Opal - James B. Paces
• Uranium Series, Rates of Basaltic Melt Generation and Transport - Aaron J. Pietruszka
• Uranium Series, Volcanic Rocks - Jorge A. Vazquez
• Uranium–Lead Dating - Randall Parrish
• Uranium–Lead Dating, Opal - Leonid Neymark
• Uranium–Lead, Chemical Isochron U–Pb Method (CHIME) - Kazuhiro Suzuki and Daniel J. Dunkley
• Uranium–Lead, Detrital Zircon - Keith Sircombe
• Uranium–Lead, Diagenetic Processes - E. Troy Rasbury
• Uranium–Lead, Extraterrestrial, Early Solar System - Yuri Amelin
• Uranium–Lead, Extraterrestrial, Planetary Materials - Alexander Nemchin
• Uranium–Lead, Igneous Rocks - Donald W. Davis
• Uranium–Lead, Metamorphic Rocks - Daniela Rubatto
• Uranium–Lead, Ore Deposits - Rolf L. Romer
• Uranium–Lead, Rubidium-Strontium, Kimberlite - Larry M. Heaman
• Uranium–Lead, Zircon - Fernando Corfu
• U-Series Dating - Bernard Bourdon
• U–Th/He Dating - Peter K. Zeitler
• Volcanic Glass (Fission Track) - John A. Westgate
• Volcanic Rocks (Ar/Ar) - Ajoy K. Baksi
• Volcanogenic Sedimentary Rocks (K/Ar, 40Ar/39Ar) - Ian McDougall
• Walther's Law of Facies - Gloria I. López
• Zircon - John M. Hanchar