[HTML][HTML] IsoplotR: A free and open toolbox for geochronology

P Vermeesch - Geoscience Frontiers, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper reviews the basic principles of radiometric geochronology as implemented in a
new software package called IsoplotR, which was designed to be free, flexible and future …

Detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology applied to tectonics

G Gehrels - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Detrital zircon geochronology is rapidly develo** into an essential tool in Earth science
research because of the widespread occurrence of zircon in sedimentary systems; the wide …

Two-billion-year-old volcanism on the Moon from Chang'e-5 basalts

QL Li, Q Zhou, Y Liu, Z **ao, Y Lin, JH Li, HX Ma… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The Moon has a magmatic and thermal history that is distinct from that of the terrestrial
planets. Radioisotope dating of lunar samples suggests that most lunar basaltic magmatism …

The tempo of Ediacaran evolution

C Yang, AD Rooney, DJ Condon, XH Li… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
The rise of complex macroscopic life occurred during the Ediacaran Period, an interval that
witnessed large-scale disturbances to biogeochemical systems. The current Ediacaran …

A late middle Pleistocene Denisovan mandible from the Tibetan Plateau

F Chen, F Welker, CC Shen, SE Bailey, I Bergmann… - nature, 2019 - nature.com
Denisovans are members of a hominin group who are currently only known directly from
fragmentary fossils, the genomes of which have been studied from a single site, Denisova …

U-Pb constraints on pulsed eruption of the Deccan Traps across the end-Cretaceous mass extinction

B Schoene, MP Eddy, KM Samperton, CB Keller… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Temporal correlation between some continental flood basalt eruptions and mass extinctions
has been proposed to indicate causality, with eruptive volatile release driving environmental …

Community‐derived standards for LA‐ICP‐MS U‐(Th‐) Pb geochronology–Uncertainty propagation, age interpretation and data reporting

MSA Horstwood, J Košler, G Gehrels… - Geostandards and …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The LA‐ICP‐MS U‐(Th‐) Pb geochronology international community has defined new
standards for the determination of U‐(Th‐) Pb ages. A new workflow defines the appropriate …

[HTML][HTML] Strategies towards statistically robust interpretations of in situ U–Pb zircon geochronology

CJ Spencer, CL Kirkland, RJM Taylor - Geoscience Frontiers, 2016 - Elsevier
Zircon U–Pb geochronology has become a keystone tool across Earth science, arguably
providing the gold standard in resolving deep geological time. The development of rapid in …

Improvements in 230Th dating, 230Th and 234U half-life values, and U–Th isotopic measurements by multi-collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry

H Cheng, RL Edwards, CC Shen, VJ Polyak… - Earth and Planetary …, 2013 - Elsevier
We have developed techniques for measuring 234U and 230Th on Faraday cups with
precisions of 1–3 epsilon units (1 ε-unit= 1 part in 104) using multi-collector inductively …

A calcite reference material for LA‐ICP‐MS U‐Pb geochronology

NMW Roberts, ET Rasbury, RR Parrish… - Geochemistry …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
U‐Pb dating of calcite is an emerging but rapidly growing field of application in
geochronology with great potential to inform problems in landscape, basin, and mountain …