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- adjective Of or pertaining to
geochronology
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Examples
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Radiocarbon is the most widely used geochronological tool in the earth sciences for the late Quaternary the last 50,000 years.
Deep-sea Corals May Be Oldest Living Marine Organism | Impact Lab 2009
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“Likewise, radiochemists could be entrained into pseudo-scientific debate because of all the massive and magnificent geochronological data that have been gathered over the last few decades.”
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He said the satellite will probe the physical characteristics of the lunar surface, certain aspects of physical, chemical and "geochronological aspects" of the moon.
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The geochronological framework of these deposits is based on ten radiocarbon dates.
Interactive Dig Sagalassos 2003 - Geomorphological Survey Report 2 2003
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If possible, we will date calcites reflecting important tectonic activity by means of U-Th and/or U-Pb dating techniques in order to determine a geochronological evolution of the changing stress fields and the absolute timing of important fault activities.
Interactive Dig Sagalassos 2003 - Seismological Studies Report 2 2003
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Our own geochronological studies suggest the infill is nearly 2 million years old.
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Using paleomagnetic and geochronological data from the drilled basalts, this project attempts to answer the question of whether the deep Hawaiian and Louisville mantle plumes, the two longest-lived primary hotspot systems in the Pacific, have moved in concert or independently.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Their approach of analyzing high-resolution topographic data of closely-spaced fault scarps is promising especially when combined with subsurface data as well as geochronological and paleoseismic data, and it provides a basic scheme for analyzing scarp populations in a complex topographic region.
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"For the first time we find lavas that have the high helium 3-to-helium 4 ratio, the right neodymium based on this discovery in 2005, and they plot on the geochron," Jackson says, referring to a geochronological dating scheme based on lead isotope ratios.
Scientific American 2010
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Using paleomagnetic and geochronological data from the drilled basalts, this project attempts to answer the question of whether the deep Hawaiian and Louisville mantle plumes, the two longest-lived primary hotspot systems in the Pacific, have moved in concert or independently.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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