Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the AGU Reference Shelf Series, Volume 4.rnrnQuaternary geochronology is the field devoted to dating Earth's history of the past 1.8 million years, the Quaternary Period. The field has come a long way since its early formulations at the beginning of the 20th century and the advent of radiocarbon…
1 Dating Methods and the Quaternaryrn2 Radiometric Dating 1: Radiocarbon Dating rn3 Radiometric Dating 2: Dating Using Long-Lived and Short-Lived Radioactive Isotopesrn4 Radiometric Dating 3: Radiation Exposure Datingrn5 Dating Using Annually Banded Recordsrn6 Relative Dating Methodsrn7 Techniques for Establishing Age Equivalencern8 Dating the Futur…