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Volume 52

Uranium-series Geochemistry

Bernard Bourdon, Gideon M. Henderson, Craig C. Lundstrom, and Simon P. Turner, editors
(revised 08/18/2004)


Exactly 100 years before the publication of this volume, the first paper which calculated the half-life for the newly discovered radioactive substance U-X (now called 234Th), was published. Now, in this volume, the editors Bernard Bourdon, Gideon Henderson, Craig Lundstrom and Simon Turner have integrated a group of contributors who update our knowledge of U-series geochemistry, offer an opportunity for non-specialists to understand its basic principles, and give us a view of the future of this active field of research. In this volume, for the first time, all the methods for determining the uranium and thorium decay chain nuclides in Earth materials are discussed. It was prepared in advance of a two-day short course (April 3-4, 2003) on U-series geochemistry, jointly sponsored by GS and MSA and presented in Paris, France prior to the joint EGS/AGU/EUG meeting in Nice.

i-xx and 656 pp. ISBN 093995064-2.


Contents of Volume 52

1. Introduction to U-series Geochemistry

by Bernard Bourdon, Simon Turner, Gideon M. Henderson and Craig C. Lundstrom

2. Techniques for Measuring Uranium-series Nuclides: 1992-2002

by Steven J. Goldstein and Claudine H. Stirling

3. Mineral-Melt Partitioning of Uranium, Thorium and Their Daughters

by Jonathan Blundy and Bernard Wood

4. Timescales of Magma Chamber Processes and Dating of Young Volcanic Rocks

by Michel Condomines, Pierre-Jean Gauthier, and Olgeir Sigmarsson

5. Uranium-series Disequilibria in Mid-ocean Ridge Basalts: Observations and Models of Basalt Genesis

by Craig C. Lundstrom

6. U-series Constraints on Intraplate Basaltic Magmatism

by Bernard Bourdon and Kenneth W. W. Sims

7. Insights into Magma Genesis at Convergent Margins from U-series Isotopes

by Simon Turner, Bernard Bourdon and Jim Gill

8. The Behavior of U- and Th-series Nuclides in Groundwater

by Donald Porcelli and Peter W. Swarzenski

9. Uranium-series Dating of Marine and Lacustrine Carbonates

by R. L. Edwards, C. D. Gallup, and H. Cheng

10. Uranium-series Chronology and Environmental Applications of Speleothems

by David A. Richards and Jeffrey A. Dorale

11. Short-lived U/Th Series Radionuclides in the Ocean: Tracers for Scavenging Rates, Export Fluxes and Particle Dynamics

by J. K. Cochran and P. MasquÈ

12. The U-series Toolbox for Paleoceanography

by Gideon M. Henderson and Robert F. Anderson

13. U-Th-Ra Fractionation During Weathering and River Transport

by F. Chabaux, J. Riotte and O. Dequincey

14. The Behavior of U- and Th-series Nuclides in the Estuarine Environment

by Peter W. Swarzenski, Donald Porcelli, Per S. Andersson and Joseph M. Smoak

15. U-series Dating and Human Evolution

by A. W. G. Pike and P. B. Pettitt

16. Mathematical-Statistical Treatment of Data and Errors for 230Th/U Geochronology

by K. R. Ludwig


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