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Absolute Dating Techniques Course

Absolute Dating Techniques Course
from 4 to 360h flexible workload
valid certificate in your country

What will I learn?

This course provides practical skills for confidently dating basalts, fluvial sands, tuffs, lake sediments, shelter deposits, and granitoids. You will learn to select and apply K-Ar, Ar-Ar, U-Pb, radiocarbon, luminescence, fission-track, and (U-Th)/He methods appropriately, prevent sampling and lab mistakes, validate results through cross-checking, and construct reliable 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.
  • Properly collect and process samples like charcoal, bones, ash, basalts, and sediments.
  • Identify and fix dating issues such as contamination, reworking, diagenesis, and inheritance.
  • Develop strong chronologies by combining stratigraphy, paleomagnetism, and Bayesian models.
  • Clearly quantify and report age uncertainties for professional geochronology tasks.

Suggested summary

Before starting, you can change the chapters and 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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