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Mebus A. Geyh
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Niedersächsisches Landesamt für Bodenforschung Alfred-Bentz-Haus, Hannover, Germany
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Helmut Schleicher
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Mineralogisch-petrographisches Institut, Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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- Mebus A. Geyh, Helmut Schleicher
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Back Matter
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About this book
With the growing recognition during the last two centuries that the Earth has an immense age and processes over long periods of time have changed the morphology and composition of the Earth's crust, geologists have become increasingly interested in determination of absolute ages. A rela tive geochronology was established on the basis of the lithostratigraphic and biostratigraphic principles developed during the last century. With the discovery of radioactivity, the basis for a new geoscientific discipline - geochronology - was established (Rutherford 1906). It is the study of geological time, based mainly on the time signatures provided by the isotopic composition in geologic materials. The isotopic signature in a rock yields more information than that provided by the geochemical signature alone because it reflects the origin and history of the element in the rock. The aim of geochronology is to calibrate and standardize chronostrati graphic scales, to develop geological time scales that have a sensitive or at least useful resolution in order to place the geological events in the correct chronological order, and to assign their proper time spans. In practice, the application of geochronology is much wider because the data in the "natural archives" often provide information on the origin, genesis, and history of the materials. This, of course, requires an understanding of the geochemical behavior of the substances involved.
Authors and Affiliations
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Niedersächsisches Landesamt für Bodenforschung Alfred-Bentz-Haus, Hannover, Germany
Mebus A. Geyh
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Mineralogisch-petrographisches Institut, Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
Helmut Schleicher
