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Absolute Dating Techniques Course

Absolute Dating Techniques Course
4 to 360h flexible workload
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What will I learn?

This course provides a hands-on toolkit for confidently dating basalts, fluvial sands, tuffs, lake sediments, shelter deposits, and granitoids. Discover when and how to use K-Ar, Ar-Ar, U-Pb, radiocarbon, luminescence, fission-track, and (U-Th)/He methods. Learn to prevent sampling and lab mistakes, validate results through cross-checking, and construct solid chronological frameworks with precise uncertainty assessments.

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Develop skills

  • Design multi-method dating strategies using optimal radiocarbon, Ar-Ar, U-Pb, and OSL techniques.
  • Collect and process samples properly including charcoal, bones, ash, basalts, and sediments.
  • Identify and fix dating errors like contamination, reworking, diagenesis, and inheritance.
  • Develop strong chronologies by combining stratigraphy, paleomagnetism, and Bayesian models.
  • Measure and communicate age uncertainties effectively for professional geochronology.

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Before starting, you can change the chapters and the workload. Choose which chapter to start with. Add or remove chapters. Increase or decrease the course workload.
Workload: between 4 and 360 hours

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