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geochronologist

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  • noun A geologist whose speciality is geochronology

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Examples

  • "The folklore material raises the real possibility that H. floresiensis actually survived until sometime in the nineteenth century," said excavation member Bert Roberts, a geochronologist at the University of Wollongong who conducted interviews with the villagers earlier this month.

    Indonesia's Lost World: Shaking Up the Family Tree 2004

  • Results of radiocarbon testing published in American Antiquity earlier this year by R.E. Taylor, a University of California-Riverside dating specialist; C. Vance Haynes Jr., an archaeologist and geochronologist at the University of Arizona; and others seemed to support Monte Verde, in that it revealed nothing that might undermine the dating of the site.

    Monte Verde Under Fire 1999

  • Results of radiocarbon and optical dating confirm that occupation debris in Australia's Jinmium Rockshelter is no more than 10,000 years old, according to geochronologist Richard Roberts of La Trobe University in Melbourne.

    Jinmium Redated 1998

  • "It only takes one or two contaminant grains to throw off the TL dates by thousands of years," says Richard Roberts, a geochronologist at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia, who has dated many of the country's oldest sites.

    Rock Art Date Contested 1998

  • IHO geochronologist Robert C. Walter determined the age of the newly discovered jaw and its associated tools by the single-crystal-laser-fusion method of potassium-argon dating, which is ideal when working with volcanic rocks.

    Earliest Remains of Genus Homo 1997

  • Garniss Curtis, a geochronologist at the University of California at Berkeley, who had dated samples from Olduvai in 1960, asked Kay Behrensmeyer for a sample of the KBS tuff and was rebuffed.

    Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995

  • The new discoveries from Koobi Fora, the Afar, and Laetoli confirmed “that the australopithecines are really out on a limb,” Mary wrote to Garniss Curtis, the UC Berkeley geochronologist who had dated Olduvai and Laetoli.

    Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995

  • Garniss Curtis, a geochronologist at the University of California at Berkeley, who had dated samples from Olduvai in 1960, asked Kay Behrensmeyer for a sample of the KBS tuff and was rebuffed.

    Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995

  • The new discoveries from Koobi Fora, the Afar, and Laetoli confirmed “that the australopithecines are really out on a limb,” Mary wrote to Garniss Curtis, the UC Berkeley geochronologist who had dated Olduvai and Laetoli.

    Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995

  • 'It took the group quite a while to come together and agree,' says intcal team leader Paula Reimer, a geochronologist at Queen's University Belfast in Northern Ireland.

    Signs of the Times 2010

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