Radioactive and Stable Isotope Geology

1997
ISBN: 978-0-412-75280-3
Verlag: Springer Netherlands

Buch, Englisch, 522 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 2060 g

Accelerating progress in the application of radioactive and stable isotope analysis to a varied range of geologicla and geochemical problems in geology has required a complete revision of , published in 1988.
This new book comprises four parts: the first introduces isotopic chemistry and examines mass spectroscopic methods; the second eeals with radiometric dating methods. Part Three examines the importance of isotopes in climato-environmental studies, and increasingly significant area of research. The last part looks at extra-terrestrial matter, geothermometry and the isotopic geochemistry of the Earth's lithosphere.
Post-graduate and post-doctoral researchers in geochemistry, as well as final year undergraduates in the earth and environmental sciences, will find an invaluable, uo-to-date and thorough treatment of the theory and practice of isotopie geology.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bowen, R.

Attendorn, H.-G.

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geologie Geochemie
• Naturwissenschaften Chemie Physikalische Chemie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

One General Introduction.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Nucleosynthesis:Fons et origoof the chemical elements in the universe and on Earth.- 3 Mass spectrometry.- Two Unstable (radioactive) isotope dating.- 4 Uranium—thorium—lead dating.- 5 Uranium series disequilibrium dating.- 6 Uranium—xenon and uranium—krypton dating.- 7 Rubidium—strontium dating.- 8 Potassium-argon and argon-argon dating.- 9 Carbon-14 dating.- 10 Tritium dating.- 11 Other methods.- 12 Radiation damage dating methods.- 13 Cosmogenic radionuclides.- Three Stable isotopes in the biosphere.- 14 Relevant stable isotopes in nature.- 15 Isotopes in palaeoclimatology and palaeoecology.- 16 Other applications of biospheric carbon and oxygen.- Four Isotopes in the lithosphere.- 17 Extraterrestrial matter.- 18 Isotopes in rocks and minerals.- 19 Isotope geothermometers.- References.- Author Index.