Faure, Gunter

Isotopes: principles and applications/ Gunter Faure and Teresa M. Mensing. - 3rd ed. - New Jersey: John wiley & sons, 2005. - xxvii, 897 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Part I Principles of Atomic Physics
1 Nuclear Systematics
2 Decay Modes of Radionuclides
3 Radioactive Decay
4 Geochronometry

Part II Radiogenic Isotope Geochronometers
5 The Rb-Sr Method
6 The K-Ar Method
7 The ⁴⁰Ar*/³⁹Ar Method
8 The K-Ca Method
9 The Sm-Nd Method
10 The U-Pb, Th-Pb, and Pb-Pb Methods
11 The Common-Lead Method
12 The Lu-Hf Method
13 The Re-Os Method
14 The La-Ce Method
15 The La-Ba Method

Part III Geochemistry of Radiogenic Isotopes
16 Mixing Theory
17 Origin of Igneous Rocks
18 Water and Sediment
19 The Oceans

Part IV Short-Lived Radionuclides
20 Uranium/Thorium-Series Disequilibria
21 Helium and Tritium
22 Radiation-Damage Methods
23 Cosmogenic Radionuclides
24 Extinct Radionuclides
25 Thermonuclear Radionuclides

Part V Fractionation of Stable Isotopes
26 Hydrogen and Oxygen
27 Carbon
28 Nitrogen
29 Sulfur
30 Boron and Other Elements

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