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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Focussing on the basic principles of radiometric dating, this book offers detailed descriptions of meteorites and measurement techniques. Zusammenfassung Developed in the last century mainly to determine the absolute ages of rocks and minerals! radiometric dating now plays a central role in many modern disciplines. It focuses on the essential principles of radiometric dating to enable the readers to understand and analyse radiometric dating results generated by professionals. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.
