Kunchithapadam Gopalan

Principles of Radiometric Dating

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Focussing on the basic principles of radiometric dating, this book offers detailed descriptions of meteorites and measurement techniques.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 245mm x 195mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 504g
• ISBN-13: 9781107198739
• ISBN-10: 1107198739
• Artikelnr.: 48331356

Autorenporträt

Kunchithapadam Gopalan is Honorary Scientist of the Indian National Science Academy. After his postdoctoral research on meteorites and moon rocks with Professor G. W. Wetherill at the University of California, Los Angeles, Gopalan initiated modern isotope geoscientific studies in India at the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad and the National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad. His notable distinctions include the Bhatnagar award of the Indian Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, M. S.Krishnan Gold Medal of the Indian Geophysical Union, Medal of Honour of the Indian Society for Mass Spectrometry, and Fellowship of the three National Academies of Science.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Basics
2. Nuclear transformations
3. Nucleosynthesis
4. Isotopics
5. Radioactivity and radiometric dating
6. Mass spectrometry in isotope geochemistry
7. Error analysis
8. Meteorites: link between cosmo- and geochemistry
9. Chronology of meteorite history
10. Chemical evolution of the Earth
11. Chronology of Earth history
References
Index.