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27 Aug 2026

Uncertainty in helium diffusion in zircon limits thermochronologic resolution: application to the Great Unconformity

Matthew Fox, Adam G. G. Smith, Pieter Vermeesch, Kerry Gallagher, and Andrew Carter

Geochronology, 8, 463–474, https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-8-463-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-8-463-2026, 2026

Final revised paper published in GChron (12 comments)

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16 Sep 2025

Nonparametric estimation of age–depth models from sedimentological and stratigraphic information

Niklas Hohmann, David De Vleeschouwer, Sietske Batenburg, and Emilia Jarochowska

Geochronology, 7, 427–448, https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-7-427-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-7-427-2025, 2025

Final revised paper published in GChron (12 comments)

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14 Apr 2026

A different take on fission-track annealing in apatite

Raymond Jonckheere, Florian Trilsch, Birk Härtel, and Thorsten Nagel

EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1924,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1924, 2026

Revised manuscript under review for GChron (discussion: final response, 7 comments)

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16 Mar 2026

On some factors controlling fission-track etch rates in apatite

Raymond Jonckheere, Florian Trilsch, Jie Liu, Pengfei Zhai, and Thorsten Nagel

EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-889,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-889, 2026

Revised manuscript under review for GChron (discussion: final response, 7 comments)

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11 Sep 2026

Challenges of initial Thorium and Approaches to Robust Speleothem Age Models: A case study from the Yucatán peninsula, Mexico

Nils Schorndorf, Sophie F. Warken, René Eichstädter, Aaron S. Mielke, Jerónimo Avilés Olguín, Frank Keppler, Dominik Hennhöfer, Fátima Tec Pool, Carlos Evia, María José Gómez, Wolfgang Stinnesbeck, and Norbert Frank

Geochronology, 8, 511–528, https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-8-511-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-8-511-2026, 2026

Final revised paper published in GChron (6 comments)

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10 Sep 2026

U-Pb dating of sub-ng g⁻¹ U garnet by LA-MC-ICP-MS

Aratz Beranoaguirre, Leo J. Millonig, Richard Albert, Horst R. Marschall, and Axel Gerdes

Geochronology, 8, 495–509, https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-8-495-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-8-495-2026, 2026

Final revised paper published in GChron (6 comments)

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10 Aug 2026

Technical note: Design, construction, automation, and first-principles calibration of a low volume He measurement line

James R. Metcalf and Rebecca M. Flowers

Geochronology, 8, 447–462, https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-8-447-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-8-447-2026, 2026

Final revised paper published in GChron (6 comments)

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08 Jul 2026

Dating circulations of hydrothermal fluids in the crystalline basements of unconformity-related metal deposits using in situ Rb ∕ Sr geochronology: proof of concept

Quentin Boulogne, Gaétan Milesi, Chantal Peiffert, Emmy Fischer, Christophe Ballouard, Mehdi Serdoun, Thomas Obin, Andreï Lecomte, Pierre Martz, Andrew Kaczowka, and Julien Mercadier

Geochronology, 8, 387–421, https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-8-387-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-8-387-2026, 2026

Final revised paper published in GChron (6 comments)

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11 Jun 2026

Plutonium isotopes as time-markers in South American lake sediments: identifying pre- and post-1959 and French test periods

Floriane Guillevic, Renaldo Gastineau, Olivier Evrard, Pierre Sabatier, Amaury Bardelle, Pierre-Alexis Chaboche, Anthony Foucher, Romina Achaga, Ana Carolina Ruiz-Fernández, Joan-Albert Sanchez-Cabeza, Marcos Tassano, Mirel Cabrera, Juan A. Quicke, Guillermo Chalar, Maarten Van Daele, Valentina Moreno-Allende, Jasper Moernaut, Torsten Haberzettl, José A. Corcho Alvarado, Stefan Röllin, Hans Sahli, Judith Kobler, Gerald Dicen, and Christine Alewell

EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-3019,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-3019, 2026

Preprint under review for GChron (discussion: final response, 6 comments)

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05 Jun 2026

Testing current estimates of the in situ cosmogenic ¹⁰Be production rate in the north-western British Isles, with implications for ice sheet behaviour during Termination 1

Gordon R. M. Bromley, Brenda L. Hall, Aaron E. Putnam, and Thomas V. Lowell

Geochronology, 8, 329–349, https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-8-329-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-8-329-2026, 2026

Final revised paper published in GChron (6 comments)

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01 Jun 2026

Too good to be true: Underdispersion in geochronology

Pieter Vermeesch

EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2783,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2783, 2026

Preprint under review for GChron (discussion: final response, 6 comments)

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28 May 2026

Response of the Rb–Sr system in biotite during contact metamorphism in the aureole of the Makhavinekh Lake Pluton, Labrador

Christopher R. M. McFarlane

Geochronology, 8, 313–327, https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-8-313-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-8-313-2026, 2026

Final revised paper published in GChron (6 comments)

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05 May 2026

Paired ¹⁴C–¹⁰Be exposure ages from Mount Murphy, West Antarctica: Implications for accurate and precise deglacial chronologies

Jonathan R. Adams, Dylan H. Rood, Klaus Wilcken, Stephen J. Roberts, and Joanne S. Johnson

Geochronology, 8, 255–277, https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-8-255-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-8-255-2026, 2026

Final revised paper published in GChron (6 comments)

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03 Mar 2026

In situ cosmogenic ¹⁰Be and ²⁶Al reveal the complex exposure and erosion history of the landscape once covered by the Quebec-Labrador Ice Dome

Peyton M. Cavnar, Paul R. Bierman, Jeremy D. Shakun, Lee B. Corbett, Danielle LeBlanc, Gillian L. Galford, Pierre-Olivier Couette, Jean-Francois Ghienne, Patrick Lajeunesse, Jérôme van der Woerd, and Marc Caffee

Geochronology, 8, 119–141, https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-8-119-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-8-119-2026, 2026

Final revised paper published in GChron (6 comments)

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07 Jan 2026

Rapid dose rate estimation for trapped charge dating using pXRF measurements of potassium concentration

Sam Woor, Mitch K. D'Arcy, Olav B. Lian, Maria Schaarschmidt, and Julie A. Durcan

Geochronology, 8, 1–18, https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-8-1-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-8-1-2026, 2026

Final revised paper published in GChron (6 comments)

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24 Oct 2025

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Accuracy and validity of maximum depositional ages in light of tandem (laser ablation and isotope dilution) U–Pb detrital zircon geochronology, including results from northern Alaska

Trystan M. Herriott, James L. Crowley, Marwan A. Wartes, David L. LePain, and Mark D. Schmitz

Geochronology, 7, 513–543, https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-7-513-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-7-513-2025, 2025

Final revised paper published in GChron (6 comments)

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20 Oct 2025

How much K is OK? Evaluating different methods for K-concentration determination and the effect of the internal K concentration on feldspar luminescence dating

Linda A. E. Maßon, Svenja Riedesel, Stephan Opitz, Anja Zander, Anthony Bell, Hanna Cieszynski, and Tony Reimann

Geochronology, 7, 475–492, https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-7-475-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-7-475-2025, 2025

Final revised paper published in GChron (6 comments)

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10 Oct 2025

Carbonate ²⁰⁶Pb ∕ ²³⁸U problems and potential ²⁰⁷Pb ∕ ²³⁵U fixes

Pieter Vermeesch, Noah McLean, Anton Vaks, Tzahi Golan, Sebastian F. M. Breitenbach, and Randall Parrish

Geochronology, 7, 459–473, https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-7-459-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-7-459-2025, 2025

Final revised paper published in GChron (6 comments)

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18 Sep 2025

Technical note: Incorporating topographic deflection effects into thermal history modelling

Richard A. Ketcham

Geochronology, 7, 449–458, https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-7-449-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-7-449-2025, 2025

Final revised paper published in GChron (6 comments)

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29 May 2026

Technical Note: Remarks on Assessing Complexity in Thermal History Models

Alyssa L. Abbey and Kerry Gallagher

EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2328,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2328, 2026

Revised manuscript under review for GChron (discussion: final response, 5 comments)

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27 May 2026

Technical Note: Reducing age dispersion in in-situ (U-Th)/He dating: How to optimize ablation pit geometries with OptiPit

Hagen Hoemann, Mathias Hueck, and István Dunkl

EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2590,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2590, 2026

Preprint under review for GChron (discussion: final response, 5 comments)

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14 Sep 2026

Causes and mitigation of U–Pb fractionation during LA-ICP-MS analyses of zircon using nanosecond excimer laser systems

Donald W. Davis and Heriberto Rochin-Banaga

Geochronology, 8, 529–545, https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-8-529-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-8-529-2026, 2026

Final revised paper published in GChron (4 comments)

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27 Aug 2026

Technical note: Disentangling pre- and post-depositional thermal histories in partially reset samples

Birk P. Härtel, Eva Enkelmann, and Akeek Maitra

Geochronology, 8, 475–494, https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-8-475-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-8-475-2026, 2026

Final revised paper published in GChron (4 comments)

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07 Aug 2026

Simplified modeling of the impact of lithospheric-scale geological processes on thermal histories and low-temperature thermochronometers

Dawn A. Kellett and David M. Whipp

Geochronology, 8, 423–445, https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-8-423-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-8-423-2026, 2026

Final revised paper published in GChron (4 comments)

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25 Jun 2026

Advancing meteorite impact chronology with in situ mica Rb-Sr dating

Bruno Ribeiro, Jayden Squire, Chris Kirkland, Juraj Farkas, Cecilia Loyola, Victoria Cousins, Victor Gostin, and Charles Verdel

EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-3441,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-3441, 2026

Preprint under review for GChron (discussion: final response, 4 comments)

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12 Jun 2026

Extraction of multiple ages from c-axis projected fission tracks

Peter K. Jensen

Geochronology, 8, 373–386, https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-8-373-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-8-373-2026, 2026

Final revised paper published in GChron (4 comments)

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12 Jun 2026

Infrared-radiofluorescence in feldspar: grain-scale mineralogy and its effect on dose response curves and apparent saturation

Taylor Grandfield, Mariana Sontag-González, Raju Kumar, Juergen Thieme, Andrew M. Kiss, Jean-Luc Schwenninger, Victoria Castle, Hanna Nekvasil, and Marine Frouin

EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2868,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2868, 2026

Preprint under review for GChron (discussion: final response, 4 comments)

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10 Jun 2026

Atmospheric ¹⁰Be from Talos Dome (East Antarctic) ice core records geomagnetic dipole intensity from 170 to 270 ka BP

Alexis Lamothe, Edouard Bard, Nicolas Thouveny, Ellyn Auriol, Mirko Severi, Rita Traversi, Martine De Angelis, Frank Wilhelms, Robert Mulvaney, Fawzi Zaidi, Georges Aumaitre, Karim Keddadouche, and Mélanie Baroni

Geochronology, 8, 351–371, https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-8-351-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-8-351-2026, 2026

Final revised paper published in GChron (4 comments)

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02 Jun 2026

Coupled K–Ca and Rb–Sr dating by LA-ICP-MS/MS – reaction gas optimisation and geological applications

Sarah E. Gilbert, Stijn Glorie, and Jarred C. Lloyd

EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2790,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2790, 2026

Preprint under review for GChron (discussion: final response, 4 comments)

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28 May 2026

PecubeGUI: a user interface for the Pecube thermal-kinematic model and advanced low-temperature thermochronometer predictions

Maxime Bernard, Pieter van der Beek, Cody Colleps, Xavier Robert, Kerry Gallagher, William Guenthner, Julien Amalberti, and Georgina E. King

EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2286,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2286, 2026

Revised manuscript under review for GChron (discussion: final response, 4 comments)

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28 May 2026

Technical note: T_c1D - a 1D thermal and thermochronometer age prediction model

David M. Whipp, Benjamin Gérard, Sanni Laaksonen, and Dawn A. Kellett

EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2514,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2514, 2026

Revised manuscript accepted for GChron (discussion: final response, 4 comments)

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27 May 2026

⁴⁰Ar ∕ ³⁹Ar constraints on the eruption history of the Christiana Volcano of the Christiana-Santorini-Kolumbo volcanic field, Greece

Pieter Z. Vroon, Teun Beemster, Xiaolong Zhou, Paraskevi Nomikou, Martijn Klaver, Jan R. Wijbrans, and Klaudia F. Kuiper

Geochronology, 8, 279–295, https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-8-279-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-8-279-2026, 2026

Final revised paper published in GChron (4 comments)

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27 May 2026

Novel insights into the post-IR IRSL₂₀₀ signal bleachability of single-grain K-feldspars in fluvial modern analogues from the Southern Central Andes, Chile

Arindam Biswas, Svenja Riedesel, Louise Karman-Besson, Max Hellers, Anne Guyez, Stéphane Bonnet, and Tony Reimann

Geochronology, 8, 297–312, https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-8-297-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-8-297-2026, 2026

Final revised paper published in GChron (4 comments)

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27 May 2026

Technical Note: The Enhanced Controlled Random Search (CRS) Algorithm for Thermal History Analysis in HeFTy

Kendra E. Murray, Richard A. Ketcham, and Andrea L. Stevens Goddard

EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2525,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2525, 2026

Revised manuscript accepted for GChron (discussion: final response, 4 comments)

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22 May 2026

Technical note: Guidance on setting up Pecube inversions with the neighbourhood algorithm

Maxime Bernard, Georgina E. King, Pieter van der Beek, Isabel Wapenhans, Lingxiao Gong, and Xavier Robert

EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2508,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2508, 2026

Revised manuscript under review for GChron (discussion: final response, 4 comments)

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19 May 2026

Short communication: A linear regression model for amino acid dating of Bithynia opercula from deep-core material

Ellie Frances Nelson and J. Andres Christen

EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2261,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2261, 2026

Preprint under review for GChron (discussion: final response, 4 comments)

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11 May 2026

Technical Note: A retroactive method for identifying subpopulations of zoned zircon in (U-Th)/He data

Jenna M. Kaempfer

EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1672,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1672, 2026

Revised manuscript under review for GChron (discussion: final response, 4 comments)

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23 Apr 2026

ESR-thermochronometry of the MIZ1 borehole, Tono, Japan

Georgina E. King, Lily Bossin, Maxime Bernard, Melanie Kranz-Bartz, Xiaoxia Wen, Christoph Schmidt, Benny Guralnik, Frédéric Herman, Manabu Ogata, and Shigeru Sueoka

EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2204,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2204, 2026

Revised manuscript under review for GChron (discussion: final response, 4 comments)

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17 Apr 2026

In situ apatite U-Pb, fission track and (U-Th)/He triple dating using a simple embedding approach

Christoph Glotzbach, Alexander Neely, and Todd Ehlers

EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1552,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1552, 2026

Revised manuscript accepted for GChron (discussion: final response, 4 comments)

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07 Apr 2026

Dating Late Pleistocene pluvial lake shorelines in the Great Basin, USA using rock surface luminescence dating techniques: developing new approaches for challenging lithologies

Christina M. Neudorf, Teresa Wriston, Geraint T. H. Jenkins, and Sebastien Huot

Geochronology, 8, 223–253, https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-8-223-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-8-223-2026, 2026

Final revised paper published in GChron (4 comments)

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01 Apr 2026

Technical note: Geodynamic Thermochronology (GDTchron) – A Python package to calculate low-temperature thermochronometric ages from geodynamic numerical models

Dylan A. Vasey, Peter M. Scully, John B. Naliboff, and Sascha Brune

Geochronology, 8, 209–222, https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-8-209-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-8-209-2026, 2026

Final revised paper published in GChron (4 comments)

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30 Mar 2026

Short communication: Crystalline features of fission tracks in monazite: Evidence from swift heavy ion irradiation and transmission electron microscopy

Shoma Fukuda, Norito Ishikawa, Toru Nakajima, Hiroaki Ogawa, and Tomitsugu Taguchi

EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-6112,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-6112, 2026

Revised manuscript under review for GChron (discussion: final response, 4 comments)

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30 Mar 2026

The conflict between sampling resolution and stratigraphic constraints from a Bayesian perspective: OSL and radiocarbon case studies

Guillaume Guérin, Pierre Guitton-Boussion, Imène Bouafia, and Anne Philippe

Geochronology, 8, 191–207, https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-8-191-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-8-191-2026, 2026

Final revised paper published in GChron (4 comments)

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27 Mar 2026

Analytical and modelling strategies for thermal histories from in situ (U-Th-Sm) ∕ He data of single apatites

Ann-Kathrin Maier, Christoph Glotzbach, and Sarah Falkowski

Geochronology, 8, 165–189, https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-8-165-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-8-165-2026, 2026

Final revised paper published in GChron (4 comments)

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26 Mar 2026

CoRSEER: The Calculator of Rock Surface Exposure Age and Erosion Rates for Rock Surface Luminescence dating

Arbaz N. Pathan, Rabiul H. Biswas, and Devender Kumar

EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1303,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1303, 2026

Revised manuscript accepted for GChron (discussion: final response, 4 comments)

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11 Mar 2026

U-Pb dating of chrysocolla from supergene copper deposits in the Coastal Cordillera of northern Chile, Atacama Desert

Juan Ríos-Contesse, Richard Albert, Benedikt Ritter-Prinz, Axel Gerdes, Tibor Dunai, and Eduardo Campos

Geochronology, 8, 143–164, https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-8-143-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-8-143-2026, 2026

Final revised paper published in GChron (4 comments)

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25 Feb 2026

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FAIR fission track analysis with geochron@home

Pieter Vermeesch, Tim Band, Jiangping He, Rex Galbraith, and Andrew Carter

Geochronology, 8, 109–118, https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-8-109-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-8-109-2026, 2026

Final revised paper published in GChron (4 comments)

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05 Feb 2026

Global and regional Pleistocene benthic δ¹⁸O stacks with a comparison of different age modeling strategies

Yuxin Zhou, Lorraine E. Lisiecki, Stephen R. Meyers, Taehee Lee, and Charles Lawrence

Geochronology, 8, 85–107, https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-8-85-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-8-85-2026, 2026

Final revised paper published in GChron (4 comments)

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26 Jan 2026

Improving crystallization and eruption age estimation using U-Th disequilibrium dating of young volcanic zircon

Zoe Moser, Marcel Guillong, Chetan Nathwani, Kurumi Iwahashi, Razvan-Gabriel Popa, and Olivier Bachmann

Geochronology, 8, 63–84, https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-8-63-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-8-63-2026, 2026

Final revised paper published in GChron (4 comments)

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19 Jan 2026

Exploring the relationships between Electron Spin Resonance (ESR)/Luminescence (OSL/TL) properties and trace element composition from quartz in various bedrocks (Strengbach catchment, Vosges)

Hélène Tissoux, Magali Rizza, Claire Aupart, Gilles Rixhon, Pierre G. Valla, Manon Boulay, Philippe Lach, and Pierre Voinchet

Geochronology, 8, 37–61, https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-8-37-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-8-37-2026, 2026

Final revised paper published in GChron (4 comments)

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