Dating Techniques
Updated March 3, 2006
Aitken, M.J., 1985, Thermoluminescence Dating, Academic, New York, 351 p.
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Benoit, P.H., 1995, Meteorites as surface exposure time markers on the Blue Ice Fields of Antarctica: Episodic ice
flow in Victoria Land over the last 300,000 years: Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 14, p. 531-540.
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Berger, G., 1992, Dating volcanic ash by use of thermoluminescence: Geology, v. 20, p. 11-14.
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Bierman, P. R., 1994, Using in situ cosmogenic isotopes to estimate rates of landscape evolution: A review from the
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Bierman, P.R., and Gillespie, A.R., 1991, Range fires: A significant factor in exposure-age determination and
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Bierman, P. R., Gillespie, A. and Caffee, M., and Elmore, D., 1995, Estimating erosion rates and exposure ages with
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Cl produced by neutron activation: Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 59, No. 18, p. 3779-3798.
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Bierman, P. and Turner, J., 1995, 10Be and 26Al evidence for exceptionally low rates of Australian bedrock erosion
and the likely existence of pre-Pleistocene landscapes: Quaternary Research, v. 44, p. 378-382.
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Broecker, W. S., 1992, Discovery of a large offset in the radiocarbon time scale: Eos, v. 73, no. 3, p. 32.
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Brown, L., 1984, Applications of accelerator mass spectrometry: Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences: v.
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Brown, L., Sacks, I.S., Tera, F., Klein, J., and Middleton, R., 1981, Beryllium-10 in continental sediments: Earth and
Planetary Science Letters: v. 55, p. 370-376.
Bull,W. B., 2000, Correlation of fluvial aggradation events to times of global climate change, in
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Burke,R.M., and Birkeland, P.W., 1979, Reevaluation of multiparameter relative dating techniques and their
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Canfield, 1985, Thermoluminescence dating and the chronology of loess deposition in the central United States:
looks like a thesis???
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Cerling, T.E., 1990, Dating geomorphic surfaces using cosmogenic 3He: Quaternary Research, v. 33, p. 148-156.
Cerling, T.E., 1990, Dating geomorphic surfaces using cosmogenic He3: Quaternary Research, v. 33, p. 148-156.
Cerling, T. E. and Craig, H., 1994, Geomorphology and in-situ cosmogenic isotopes: Annual Review of Earth and
Planetary Science, v. 22, p. 273-317.
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Clark, D., Bierman, P. R. and Larsen, P., 1995, Improving in situ cosmogenic chronometers: Quaternary Research, v.
44, no. 3, p. 366-376.
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Colman, S.M., Pierce, K.L., and Birkeland, P.W., 1987, Suggested terminology for Quaternary dating methods:
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Colman, S.M. and Pierce, K.L., 1981, Weathering rinds on andesitic and basaltic stones as a
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United States based on weathering rinds and related studies, in Correlation of Quaternary
chronologies, Mahaney, W.C., ed., p. 437-453, Geobooks, Norwich, England.
Crook, R., Jr., 1986, Relative dating of Quaternary deposits based on P-wave velocities in weathered granitic clasts:
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Donahue, D.J., 1995, Radiocarbon analysis by accelerator mass-spectrometry: International Journal of Mass
Spectrometry and Ion Processes, v. 143, p. 235-245.
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Dumitru, T.A., 2000, Fission track geochronology, in Quaternary Geochronology: Methods and
Applications: American Geophysical Union Reference Shelf 4, p. 131-155.
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Easterbrook, Don, 1988, Paleomagentism of Quaternary deposits, in Geological Society of America Special Paper
227, p. 111-122.
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Forman, S.L., 1989, Application and limitations of thermoluminescence to date Quaternary sediments: Quaternary
International, v. 1, p. 47-59.
Forman, S.L., Machette, M.N., Jackson, M.E., and Maat, P., 1989, Evaluation of thermoluminescence dating of
paleoearthquakes on the American Fork segment, Wasatch fault zone, Utah: Journal of Geophysical
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Forman, S.L., Pierson, T., Lepper, K., 2000, Luminescence geochronology, in Quaternary Geochronology: Methods
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Applications: American Geophysical Union Reference Shelf 4, p. 157-176.
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Getty, S.R. and DePaolo, D.J. 2000. U-Pb and Th-Pb geochronology in Quaternary rocks. Quaternary
Geochronology:
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Gillespie, A.R., and Bierman, P.R., 1995, Precision of terrestrial exposure ages and erosion rates estimated from
analysis of cosmogenic isotopes produced in-situ: Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth, v. 100,
no. B12, p. 24637-24649.
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Granger, D.E., Kirchner, J.W., and Finkel, R., 1996, Spatially averaged long-term erosion rates measured from in
situ-produced cosmogenic nuclides in alluvial sediment: Journal of Geology, v. 104, p. 249-257.
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Hall, R.D., and Michaud, D., 1988, The use of hornblende etching clast weathering and soils to date alpine glacial
and periglacial deposits: A study from southwestern Montana: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v.
100, p. 458-467.
Hanks, T.C., 2000, The age of scarplike landforms from diffusion-equation analysis, in
Quaternary Geochronology: Methods and Applications: American Geophysical Union Reference Shelf 4, p.
313-338.
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Jackson, L.E., Phillips, F.M., Shimamura, K., and Little, E.C., 1997, Cosmogenic 36Cl dating of the foothills erratics
train, Alberta, Canada: Geology, v. 25, p. 195-198.
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Jacoby, G.C, 2000A, Tree-ring evidence for the san andreas earthquake of 1812: Methods and
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Jacoby, G.C., 2000B, Dendrochronology, in Quarternary Geochronology: Methods and
Applications: American Geophysical Union Reference Shelf 4 p. 11-20.
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Knuepfer, P.L.K., 1988, Estimating ages of late Quaternary stream terraces from analysis of weathering rinds and
soils: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 100, p. 1224-1236.
Lettis, W.R., and Kelson, K.I., 2000, Applying geochronology in paleoseismology, in Quaternary
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Linnick, T.W., Damon, P.E., Donahue, D.J., and Jull, A.J.T., 1989, Accelerator mass spectrometry: The new
revolution in radiocarbon dating: Quaternary Internationa, v. 1, p. 1-6.
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Marek G., and Phillips, Fred M., 2000, Cosmogenic nuclide buildup in surficial material:. in
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Moeller, P. and Wagener, K., 1967, Dating soil layers by 10Be, in Low level dating and methods of low-level
counting: Internationa Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna.
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Muhs, D.R., 2000, Dating marine terraces with relative age and correlated-age methods, in Quaternary
Geochronology: Methods and Applications: American Geophysical Union Reference Shelf 4 p. 434-446.
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Noller, J.S., and Locke, W.W., 2000, Lichenometry, in Quaternary Geochronology: Methods and
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