Overview
Argon isotopic dating is one of the most important techniques for estimating the ages of rocks and can be used on very small samples. It has been used to assign reliable ages to the Earth and numerous meteorites. This second edition covers the standard principles and methods and incorporates many of new developments from the last decade. It covers the basis of the method, technical aspects, data presentation, diffusion theory, thermochronology, and many applications and case studies.
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Author: Ian McDougall (Professor of Geology, Professor of Geology, Research School of Earth Sciences, The Australian National University) ,
T. Mark Harrison (Professor of Geology, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, Professor of Geology, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Dimensions:
Width: 18.40cm
, Height: 2.40cm
, Length: 26.10cm
Weight: 0.712kg
ISBN: 9780195109207
ISBN 10: 0195109201
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 19 August 1999
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
<br> The coverage of the book is broad and detailed, and the book contains a great deal of information on a variety of related topics. Many examples of studies on specific samples are used as illustrations throughout the book, almost all involving terrestrial materials. The book uses many tables, figures, and equations to illustrate concepts. it also contains 26 pages of references and a seven-page index. It is by far the most extensive treatment of the 40Ar/39Ar dating technique and its applications of which I am aware. Every laboratory performing radiometric dating may wish to have a copy. -- Donald D. Bogard, Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 36, 2001<p><br>
The coverage of the book is broad and detailed, and the book contains a great deal of information on a variety of related topics. Many examples of studies on specific samples are used as illustrations throughout the book, almost all involving terrestrial materials. The book uses many tables, figures, and equations to illustrate concepts. it also contains 26 pages of references and a seven-page index. It is by far the most extensive treatment of the 40Ar/39Ar dating technique and its applications of which I am aware. Every laboratory performing radiometric dating may wish to have a copy. -- Donald D. Bogard, Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 36, 2001<br>
<br> The coverage of the book is broad and detailed, and the book contains a great deal of information on a variety of related topics. Many examples of studies on specific samples are used as illustrations throughout the book, almost all involving terrestrial materials. The book uses many tables, figures, and equations to illustrate concepts. it also contains 26 pages of references and a seven-page index. It is by far the most extensive treatment of the 40Ar/39Ar dating technique and its applications of which I am aware. Every laboratory performing radiometric dating may wish to have a copy. -- Donald D. Bogard, Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 36, 2001<br>
"""The coverage of the book is broad and detailed, and the book contains a great deal of information on a variety of related topics. Many examples of studies on specific samples are used as illustrations throughout the book, almost all involving terrestrial materials. The book uses many tables, figures, and equations to illustrate concepts. it also contains 26 pages of references and a seven-page index. It is by far the most extensive treatment of the 40Ar/39Ar dating technique and its applications of which I am aware. Every laboratory performing radiometric dating may wish to have a copy."" -- Donald D. Bogard, Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 36, 2001 ""When the first edition of McDougall and Harrison appeared in 1988, it summarized the state of knowledge in Ar-Ar geochronology, and provided every graduate student and academic with essential details and knowledge of the technique. . . . It was, and remains the essential reference book found in every Ar-Ar laboratory throughout the world. . . . [T]here have been several improvements in the techniques, [and] ... I would ... say that the techniques you will be using now and the application papers you will want to find, are described and referenced in this edition and not in the first edition. . . . Finally, is the second edition ... value for money as an Ar-Ar source book . . . ? Do the readers of Journal of Petrology need this second edition? The answer is yes . . . [I]t is a remarkably difficult task to write such a source book and keep it up to date. The authors have succeeded in updating their original work and making it relevant to modern Ar-Ar dating.""--Journal of Petrology ""The coverage of the book is broad and detailed, and the book contains a great deal of information on a variety of related topics. Many examples of studies on specific samples are used as illustrations throughout the book, almost all involving terrestrial materials. The book uses many tables, figures, and equations to illustrate concepts. it also contains 26 pages of references and a seven-page index. It is by far the most extensive treatment of the 40Ar/39Ar dating technique and its applications of which I am aware. Every laboratory performing radiometric dating may wish to have a copy."" -- Donald D. Bogard, Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 36, 2001"
