Geochronology
Subtitle: emerging opportunities
By: Thomas D. Olszewski, editor
Contributors: Huff, Warren D., 1937-; Paleontological Society; Geological Society of America. Meeting
Series: Paleontological Society papers -- v. 12; The Paleontological Society special publication; Special publication (Paleontological Society)
Publisher: Paleontological Society
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New Haven, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
Subjects: Geological time; Congresses; Radioactive dating
Notes: "Presented as a Paleontological Society Short Course at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 21, 2006, convened by Thomas D. Olszewski, Warren D. Huff"--Added t.p.

"October 2006."

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to radiometric dating / Brent V. Miller; title: High-precision U-Pb zircon geochronology and the stratigraphic record : progress and promise / Samuel A. Bowring ... [et al.]; title: Progress and challenges in K-Ar and ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar geochronology / Paul R. Renne; title: Detrital zircon geochronology by laser-ablation multicollector ICPMS at the Arizona LaserChron Center / George Gehrels, Victor Valencia, and Alex Pullen; title: Directly dating sedimentary rocks / E. Troy Rasbury and Jennifer M. Cole; title: The geological time scale / Felix M. Gradstein; title: Incorporation of geologic cycles in establishing geologic timescales : exercise notes / Heiko Pälike; title: Composite time lines : a means to leverage resolving power from radioisotopic dates and biostratigraphy / Peter M. Sadler; title: Opportunities and challenges of a highly resolved geological timescale / Douglas H. Erwin.