Dating Techniques in Environmental Research

 

Dating techniques

• numerical methods (radiocarbon, exposure dating with ¹⁰Be, ²⁶Al, ³⁶Cl, etc.),
• dendrochronology, Ice-core chronologies,
• relative methods like soil weathering and Schmidt-hammer technique, palaeosoils, palaeomagnetism

Reconstruction of environmental parameters

(using dendroecology, stable isotopes, ....)

Climate and landscape history

(case studies: dendrochronology, ice cores, varves, loess-stratigraphies, ….)

Reconstructing geomorphic processes

(avalanches, mud flows, land slides, rock fall)

Forest fires

(charcoal: identification, dating, …)

Lectures and field trips

Presentation of the participants own research