Nuclear Clocks / Revised
by Henry Faul
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Chapters (35)
- Nuclear Clocks
- INTRODUCTION
- THEORY OF NUCLEAR AGE DETERMINATION
- THE CARBON-14 CLOCK
- Carbon-14 Counting
- Carbon-14 Results
- OBJECTS DATED BY RADIOCARBON
- THE LONG-LIVED CLOCKS
- The Rubidium-Strontium Clock
- The Uranium Fission Clock
- Plumbology
- THE AGE OF THE EARTH
- Analytical Techniques
- Isotope Dilution
- Mass Spectrometry
- Minerals That Can Be Dated
- Potash Feldspar
- Mica
- Low-Strontium Feldspar
- Zircon
- Hornblende
- Sanidine
- Whole Rocks
- SOME INTERESTING RESULTS
- The Old Man from Olduvai
- The Geologic Time Scale
- Precambrian Stratigraphy
- AND WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?
- GLOSSARY
- APPENDIX Radioactive Decay
- SUGGESTED REFERENCES
- Books
- Articles
- PHOTO CREDITS
- Footnotes
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