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Journal of Petrology Volume 41 Number 12 Pages 1823-1824 2000
© Oxford University Press 2000

BOOK REVIEW

Geochronology and Thermochronology by the 40Ar/39Ar Method, 2nd edn, by Ian McDougall and T. Mark Harrison. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1999. 269 pp. ISBN 0195109201. £65

When the first edition of McDougall and Harrison appeared in 1988, it summarized the state of knowledge in Ar–Ar geochronology, and provided every graduate student and academic with essential details and knowledge of the technique. It was not an easy read, but went far beyond the summary chapters on Ar–Ar geochronology in general isotope geology texts. It had some foibles, such as the infamous errors in the diffusion equations in Table 5.1 (included, it was rumoured, to catch the unwary Ph.D. student). It was, and remains the essential reference book found in every Ar–Ar laboratory throughout . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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