Quaternary Dating Methods (eBook)

Front Cover 1
Quaternary Dating Methods 4
Copyright Page 5
Contents 12
Preface 8
Contributing Authors 14
Sessions Chairmen 17
Panel Discussion 17
Chapter 1. Radiocarbon Dating: Some Problems and Potential Developments 18
Chapter 2. Radioisotope Detection and Dating with Particle Accelerators 34
Chapter 3. Uranium-Series Dating of Quaternary Deposits 50
Chapter 4. Uranium-Series Dating and the History of Sea Level 70
Chapter 5. The Applicability of 40Ar/39Ar Dating to Young Volcanics 84
Chapter 6. Lead-210 Dating of Sediments from Some Northern Ontario Lakes 92
Chapter 7. Fission-Track Dating 104
Chapter 8. Using Paleomagnetic Remanence and Magnetic Susceptibility Data for the Differentiation, Relative Correlation and and Absolute Dating of Quaternary Sediments 118
Chapter 9. Paleomagnetic Dating of Quaternary Sediments: A Review 140
Chapter 10. The Present Status of Obsidian Hydration Dating 158
Chapter 11. Thermoluminescence Dating of Quaternary Sediments 170
Chapter 12. Relative and Absolute Dating of Quaternary Mollusks with Amino Acid Racemization: Evaluation, Applications, and Questions 188
Chapter 13. Utilizing Wood in Amino Acid Dating 212
Chapter 14. Tree-Ring Dating in Canada and the Northwestern U.S. 228
Chapter 15. Development and Application of a Lichenometric Dating Curve, Brooks Range, Alaska 244
Chapter 16. Landforms and Landscapes as Measures of Relative Time 264
Chapter 17. Relative Dating of Soils and Paleosols 286
Chapter 18. Dating With Pollen: Methodology, Applications, Limitations 300
Chapter 19. Mammoths, Bison and Time in North America 316
Chapter 20. Field Use of Macrofeatures for Correlating Tills and Estimating Their Ages: A Review 328
Chapter 21. Evaluation of Relative Pedostratigraphic Dating Methods, With Special Reference to Quaternary Successions Overlying Weathered Platform Materials 340
Chapter 22. Evaluation of Dating Methods Used to Assign Ages in the Wind River and Teton Ranges, Western Wyoming 372
Chapter 23. Dating Methods Applicable to Late Glacial Deposits of the Lake Agassiz Basin, Manitoba 392
Chapter 24. The Quaternary Succession in the Rio Blanco Basin, Cordon Del Plata, Mendoza Province, Argentina: An Application of Multiple Relative-Dating Techniques 406
Chapter 25. Panel Discussion 424
Chapter 26. Quaternary Stratigraphy of the Coastal Bluffs of Lake Ontario East of Oshawa 434
Index 446