Jack Satterly Geochronology Laboratory
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RESEARCH
Our research spans the entire geologic time scale ...
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Our lab is at the leading edge of modern U-Pb dating of geological materials. Our successful development and application of these methods has included many major milestones, for example:  
  • order-of-magnitude improvement in the precision of dating meteorites, thereby establishing a robust chronology for the consolidation of the early solar system 
  • increasingly detailed understanding of the evolution of the Earth’s crust on almost every continent
  • greater understanding of short-lived, often Ni-Cu-PGE-bearing, mafic magmatic events in Large Igneous Provinces to reconstruct now-rifted and dispersed Au- and base metal-hosting Archean cratons from precise baddeleyite/zircon dating 
  • correlations between mass extinction events, volcanism, and meteorite impacts  
  • demonstrated ore-forming processes intimately associated with stratigraphic, structural, metamorphic and hydrothermal evolution of a given geological belt; U-Pb geochronology provides an essential tool for resolving stratigraphic and magmatic vs. hydrothermal controls on metallogenesis 
  • we are part of the international EARTHTIME initiative working to establish ultra-high precision geochronological benchmarks for an improved understanding of the tempo of biological evolution and its punctuated extinctions in Earth history
  • researchers in our lab have published many hundreds of papers (please contact us for a complete listing) 

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