
Geochronology Summer School
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