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 Isotopes in the Earth Sciences, 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 Radioactive and Stable Isotope Geology an invaluable, uo-to-date and thorough treatment of the theory and practice of isotopie geology.
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.
