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  • Category: Books (Science)
  • Author:  Attendorn, H.-G., Bowen, R.
  • Author:  Attendorn, H.-G., Bowen, R.
  • ISBN-10:  9401076782
  • ISBN-10:  9401076782
  • ISBN-13:  9789401076784
  • ISBN-13:  9789401076784
  • Publisher:  Springer
  • Publisher:  Springer
  • Binding:  Paperback
  • Binding:  Paperback
  • Pub Date:  01-Mar-2011
  • Pub Date:  01-Mar-2011
  • SKU:  9401076782-11-SPRI
  • SKU:  9401076782-11-SPRI
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I: Introductory Chapters.- 1. Introduction.- 1.1. The Big Bang: Forces, Particles and Isotopes.- 1.2. Supernovae, the Solar System and Isotopes.- 1.2.1. The Allende meteorite.- 1.2.2. Excess oxygen-16.- 1.2.3. Other anomalies.- 1.3. Elementary Particles.- 1.4. Elements.- 1.5. Radioactivity.- 1.6. Fractionation.- 1.7. Palaeothermometry.- 1.8. Unstable Atomic Nuclei.- 1.9. Beta Particles.- 1.10. Positron Decay.- 1.11. Electron Capture.- 1.12. Branched Decay.- 1.13. Alpha Decay.- 1.14. Nuclear Fission.- 1.15. Radioactive Decay.- 1.16. Decay Series.- 1.17. Radioactivity Units.- 1.18. Neutron Activation.- 1.19. Isotopic Translocation.- 2. Mass Spectrometry.- 2.1. Background.- 2.2. The Mass Spectrometer.- 2.3. Sample Preparation for Gas Isotope Mass Spectrometers.- 2.4. The Inlet System.- 2.5. The Ion Source.- 2.6. The Mass Analyser.- 2.7. Ionic Motions.- 2.8. Collector Systems and Ion Current Measurements.- 2.9. System Configuration Delta.- 2.10. Automatic Thermal Ionization Isotope Mass Spectrometer.- 2.11. Accelerator-Based Mass Spectrometry.- 2.12. Laser Mass Spectrometry.- 2.13. Ion Microprobes.- 2.14. Isotope Dilution.- II: Dating Methods.- 3. Uranium, Thorium, Lead Dating.- 3.1. Background.- 3.2. Geochemistry.- 3.3. Decay Series.- 3.4. Lead.- 3.5. U-Pb Concordia Diagrams.- 3.6. Concordia Models.- 3.7. U-Pb, Th-Pb, Pb-Pb Isochrons.- 3.8. Common-Lead Dating.- 3.9. Anomalous Leads.- 3.10. Multistage Leads.- 3.11. Whole-Rock Dating.- 3.12. Lead in Feldspars.- 3.13. Recent Advances.- 4. Rubidium-Strontium Dating.- 4.1. Background.- 4.2. Geochemistry.- 4.3. Dating Methodology.- 4.4. Isochrons.- 4.5. Mixtures.- 4.6. Fictitious Isochrons.- 4.7. Strontium Through Geological Time.- 4.7.1. Chondrites and achondrites.- 4.7.2. The Moon.- 4.7.3. The isotope evolution of terrestrial strontium.- 4.7.4. The origin of granites.- 4.8. Strontium in Sedimentary Deposits.- 5. Potassium-Argon and Argon-40/Argon-39 Dating.- 5.1. Background.- 5.2. Theory and Assumptions in Potassium-Argon lƒ-
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