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Editors: Philippa Ascough, Greg Balco, Tibor J. Dunai, Georgina King, Andreas Lang & Klaus Mezger

eISSN: GChron 2628-3719, GChronD 2628-3735

Geochronology (GChron) is a not-for-profit international scientific journal dedicated to the discussion and publication of high-quality research on the physical, chemical, and biological processes used to quantify time in all environmental and geological settings throughout Earth's history.

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Recent papers

01 Dec 2023

Late Neogene terrestrial climate reconstruction of the central Namib Desert derived by the combination of U–Pb silcrete and terrestrial cosmogenic nuclide exposure dating

Benedikt Ritter, Richard Albert, Aleksandr Rakipov, Frederik M. Van der Wateren, Tibor J. Dunai, and Axel Gerdes

Geochronology, 5, 433–450, https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-5-433-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-5-433-2023, 2023

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29 Nov 2023

Early Holocene ice retreat from Isle Royale in the Laurentian Great Lakes constrained with ¹⁰Be exposure-age dating

Eric W. Portenga, David J. Ullman, Lee B. Corbett, Paul R. Bierman, and Marc W. Caffee

Geochronology, 5, 413–431, https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-5-413-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-5-413-2023, 2023

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27 Nov 2023

Short communication: Resolving the discrepancy between U–Pb age estimates for the ‘Likhall’ zircon bed, a key level in the Ordovician timescale

André Navin Paul, Anders Lindskog, and Urs Schaltegger

EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-2597,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-2597, 2023

Preprint under review for GChron (discussion: open, 0 comments)

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15 Nov 2023

A new method for amino acid geochronology of the bivalve shell Arctica islandica

Martina L. G. Conti, Paul G. Butler, David J. Reynolds, Tamara Trofimova, James D. Scourse, and Kirsty E. H. Penkman

EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-2560,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-2560, 2023

Preprint under review for GChron (discussion: open, 0 comments)

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20 Oct 2023

Technical note: Darkroom lighting for luminescence dating laboratory

Marine Frouin, Taylor Grandfield, William Huebsch, and Owen Evans

Geochronology, 5, 405–412, https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-5-405-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-5-405-2023, 2023

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19 Oct 2023

Solving crustal heat transfer for thermochronology using physics-informed neural networks

Ruohong Jiao, Shengze Cai, and Jean Braun

Geochronology Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-2023-24,https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-2023-24, 2023

Preprint under review for GChron (discussion: open, 1 comment)

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11 Oct 2023

Volcanism straddling the Miocene–Pliocene boundary on Patmos and Chiliomodi islands (southeastern Aegean Sea): insights from new ⁴⁰Ar ∕ ³⁹Ar ages

Katharina M. Boehm, Klaudia F. Kuiper, Bora Uzel, Pieter Z. Vroon, and Jan R. Wijbrans

Geochronology, 5, 391–403, https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-5-391-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-5-391-2023, 2023

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27 Sep 2023

New age constraints supporting the existence of protracted deformation in the Delamerian Orogen: ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar geochronology on fabric forming minerals of the Kanmantoo Group metasediments

Naina Goswami

EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-1839,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-1839, 2023

Preprint under review for GChron (discussion: open, 2 comments)

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22 Sep 2023

Differential bleaching of quartz and feldspar luminescence signals under high-turbidity conditions

Jürgen Mey, Wolfgang Schwanghart, Anna-Maartje de Boer, and Tony Reimann

Geochronology, 5, 377–389, https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-5-377-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-5-377-2023, 2023

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20 Sep 2023

Technical note: Studying lithium metaborate fluxes and extraction protocols with a new, fully automated in situ cosmogenic ¹⁴C processing system at PRIME Lab

Nathaniel Lifton, Jim Wilson, and Allie Koester

Geochronology, 5, 361–375, https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-5-361-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-5-361-2023, 2023

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12 Mar 2021

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geoChronR – an R package to model, analyze, and visualize age-uncertain data

Nicholas P. McKay, Julien Emile-Geay, and Deborah Khider

Geochronology, 3, 149–169, https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-3-149-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-3-149-2021, 2021

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22 Oct 2020

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Resolving multiple geological events using in situ Rb–Sr geochronology: implications for metallogenesis at Tropicana, Western Australia

Hugo K. H. Olierook, Kai Rankenburg, Stanislav Ulrich, Christopher L. Kirkland, Noreen J. Evans, Stephen Brown, Brent I. A. McInnes, Alexander Prent, Jack Gillespie, Bradley McDonald, and Miles Darragh

Geochronology, 2, 283–303, https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-2-283-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-2-283-2020, 2020

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24 Jan 2020

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Electron spin resonance (ESR) thermochronometry of the Hida range of the Japanese Alps: validation and future potential

Georgina E. King, Sumiko Tsukamoto, Frédéric Herman, Rabiul H. Biswas, Shigeru Sueoka, and Takahiro Tagami

Geochronology, 2, 1–15, https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-2-1-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-2-1-2020, 2020

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11 Dec 2019

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Stepwise chemical abrasion–isotope dilution–thermal ionization mass spectrometry with trace element analysis of microfractured Hadean zircon

C. Brenhin Keller, Patrick Boehnke, Blair Schoene, and T. Mark Harrison

Geochronology, 1, 85–97, https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-1-85-2019,https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-1-85-2019, 2019

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