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Global change has become a hot spot in Quaternary geology, and high-precision, high-sensitivity dating is also an urgent problem which needs to be solved. This paper presents some achievements in U-series dating of marine corals by thermal ionization mass spectrometry (TIMS) and its application to the study of paleo-environments. Recently, coral samples were determined for their ages on a MAT-262 mass spectrometer and satisfactory results have been obtained.
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This research project was granted jointly by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 49872061) and the Open Lab. of Guilin Karst Institute, Ministry of State Land and Resources.
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Wang, Z., Zhang, Z., Peng, Z. et al. High precision thermal ionization mass spectrometric dating of corals and its application to paleo-environmental study. Chin. J. of Geochem. 20, 138–143 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03165995
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