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SUMMARY:101 years of Geochronology and the EARTHTIME revolution (2003 to p
 resent) - Dan Condon\, NERC Isotope Geosciences Laboratory\, British Geolo
 gical Survey
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CONTACT:Stephen Pates
DESCRIPTION:In 1913\, Frederick Soddy’s research on the fundamentals of 
 radioactivity led to the discovery of “isotopes.” Later that same year
 \, Arthur Holmes published his now famous book The Age of the Earth\, in w
 hich he applied this new science of radioactivity to the quantification of
  geologic time.  Combined\, these two landmark events did much to establis
 h the field of “isotope geochronology”. In this talk I will outline th
 e developments in geochronologic methods over the past 101 years with an e
 mphasis on the past decade which has witnessed a renewed effort on improvi
 ng the quantification of purported high-accuracy systems (U-Pb\, 40Ar/39Ar
 ).  These improvements have been made concurrent with their application to
  inform a number of geological topics which will be used to illustrate the
  need for such efforts.
LOCATION:Harker Room 1\, Department of Earth Sciences
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