International Geochronolgy Summer School

• Uni Zürich 3704: International Geochronolgy Summer School

1 September - 6 September 2013 Bergün, Switzerland

Dozierende

Markus Egli, Dagmar Brandova, Paolo Cherubini, Holger Gärtner

Lernziel

Dating techniques / Reconstruction of environmental parameters / Climate and landscape history / Reconstructing geomorphic processes / Forest fires

Inhalt:

The Summer School is open to young researchers (PhD students and Post-Docs) worldwide. Topics to be covered in lectures, excursions and workshops.

- Dating techniques: such as numerical methods (radiocarbon, exposure dating with cosmogenic nuclides, OSL, etc.); dendrochronology, Ice-core chronologies, as well as relative methods like soil weathering and Schmidt-hammer technique
- Reconstruction of environmental parameters (using dendroecology, stable isotopes, ....)
- Climate and landscape history
- Reconstructing geomorphic processes: Avalanches, mud flows, land slides, rock fall, Forest fires, charcoal identification and dating.
- Presentation of the participants own research