(Geophysical Monograph Series) 1st Edition
by Desmond E. Moser (Editor), Fernando Corfu (Editor), James R. Darling (Editor), Steven M. Reddy (Editor), Kimberly Tait (Editor)
Microstructural Geochronology
Geochronology
techniques enable the study of geological evolution and environmental
change over time. This volume integrates two aspects of geochronology:
one based on classical methods of orientation and spatial patterns, and
the other on ratios of radioactive isotopes and their decay products.
The
chapters illustrate how material science techniques are taking this
field to the atomic scale, enabling us to image the chemical and
structural record of mineral lattice growth and deformation, and
sometimes the patterns of radioactive parent and daughter atoms
themselves, to generate a microstructural geochronology from some of the
most resilient materials in the solar system.
- First
compilation of research focusing on the crystal structure, material
properties, and chemical zoning of the geochronology mineral archive
down to nanoscale
- Novel comparisons of mineral time archives from different rocky planets and asteroids and their shock metamorphic histories
- Fundamentals on how to reconstruct and date radiogenic isotope distributions using atom probe tomography
Microstructural Geochronology will
be a valuable resource for graduate students, academics, and
researchers in the fields of petrology, geochronology, mineralogy,
geochemistry, planetary geology, astrobiology, chemistry, and material
science. It will also appeal to philosophers and historians of science
from other disciplines.
