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Contents
1
Introduction
2
Basic Notions
2.1
Isotopes and radioactivity
2.2
Radioactivity
2.3
The age equation
2.4
Decay series
3
Analytical techniques
3.1
Mass spectrometry
3.2
Isotope dilution
3.3
Sample-standard bracketing
4
Simple parent-daughter pairs
4.1
14
C dating
4.2
The Rb-Sr method
4.3
Isochrons
4.4
The Sm-Nd method
5
The U-Pb system
5.1
The U-(Th-)Pb method
5.2
The Pb-Pb method
5.3
Concordia
5.4
Detrital geochronology
6
The K-Ar system
6.1
K-Ar dating
6.2
40
Ar/
39
Ar dating
6.3
Applications
7
Thermochronology
7.1
The U-Th-He method
7.2
Fission tracks
8
Cosmogenic Nuclides
8.1
Stable nuclides
8.2
Radionuclides
8.3
The ‘Banana Plot’
8.4
Scaling models
9
U-series dating
9.1
The
234
U-
238
U method
9.2
The
230
Th method
9.3
The
230
Th-
238
U method
10
Error propagation
10.1
Some basic definitions
10.2
Examples
10.3
Accuracy vs. precision
11
Exercises
12
Programming practicals
12.1
Introduction to
R
12.2
Introduction to
Matlab
12.3
U-Th-Pb data reduction
12.4
40
Ar/
39
Ar data reduction
12.5
Error propagation
12.6
Fission tracks
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