Recent Comments
Creative Commons License
Apparent Dip is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Category Archives: geochronology
FT2008 – Alaska chapter 4 and a big thanks
Before I write any more about FT2008, the International Conference on Thermochronometry, I need to take care of one blog related item. Last week I was named a “blog of note” on blogger.com, and have since seen a drastic increase … Continue reading
FT2008 – Alaska chapter 2
As I mentioned in my last post, the scientific program at FT2008 (The International Conference on Thermochronometry in Anchorage) was overall pretty impressive. I thought I’d highlight a few of the presentations that I found most interesting. As a side … Continue reading
Thermochronologic Sampling
I’ve posted about thermochronology and mineral separations (twice), but I realized that I haven’t yet gone over the field work aspect of thermochronology. Now, I’ll admit up front that the field work I do is not very hard core. There … Continue reading
FT2008 Early Registration Deadline
The early registration deadline for the 11th International Conference on Thermochronometry is tomorrow! Get the purchase card and sign up now, otherwise your grant will have to pony up another 50$. All the information you’ll need can be found here. … Continue reading
Great Gift Idea for that Geochronologist in Your Life
I just wanted to mirror a post on the Arizona Geology Blog in case you know any geochronologists with upcoming birthdays, or wanted to get a head start on the Holiday shopping season. This could be the very first gift … Continue reading
Future Geologists
This story appeared in our local paper this morning, and I thought it was worth highlighting. It tells the story of a 5th grader who noticed that a display at the Smithsonian identified the Pre-Cambrian as an “era.” He knew … Continue reading
Posted in earth science, geochronology, science and society
1 Comment
Lab Ninjas – ANIMAL edition
I like to think of myself as a lab person. I think on average, I have a decent knowledge of the technical aspects of noble gas analysis. I have built a He extraction line from scatch, I’ve been involved with … Continue reading
Closure Temperature
I’ve alluded in some of my previous posts (aquí und hier) to one of the fundamental concepts of thermochronology, the idea of a closure temperature. Today I ended up re-reading some of the first thermochronology papers I ever read, back … Continue reading
Mineral Separations Part 2
So I was really interested in all of the comments I got for my first mineral separation post (here). So I decided I’d try to make a list of the various steps people seem to use. This may be a … Continue reading
The Art of Mineral Separation
UPDATE – My next post is a more complete discussion of mineral separation. When many people in the geochronology/thermochronology community talk about new gadgets and gizmos on their wishlist they seem to focus almost entirely on the sample analysis side … Continue reading
Apparent Dip 