Research article

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
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23 Apr 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
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2284,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2284, 2026
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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19 Mar 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
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1443,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1443, 2026
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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20 Jan 2026
Dating circulations of hydrothermal fluids in the crystalline basements of unconformity-related metallic 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
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-6469,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-6469, 2026
Revised manuscript under review for GChron (discussion: final response, 6 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
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16 Jan 2026
Cosmogenic 3He exposure dating in mafic rocks by “Virtual mineral separation” of pyroxene
Marie Bergelin, Greg Balco, and Richard A. Ketcham
Geochronology, 8, 19–35, https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-8-19-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-8-19-2026, 2026
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13 Jan 2026
Extraction of multiple ages from c-axis projected fission tracks
Peter K. Jensen
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-6510,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-6510, 2026
Preprint under review for GChron (discussion: final response, 4 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
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31 Dec 2025
Response of Rb-Sr system in biotite during contact metamorphism in the aureole of the Makhavinekh Lake Pluton, Labrador
Christopher R.M. McFarlane
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-6320,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-6320, 2025
Revised manuscript accepted for GChron (discussion: final response, 6 comments)
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16 Dec 2025
A progressively elevated temperature (PET) IRSL SAR procedure – first experiments and results
Annette Kadereit, Mariana Sontag-González, Sebastian Kreutzer, Marco Colombo, Christoph Schmidt, and Paul R. Hanson
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-5978,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-5978, 2025
Revised manuscript under review for GChron (discussion: final response, 4 comments)
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25 Nov 2025
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
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-5707,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-5707, 2025
Preprint under review for GChron (discussion: final response, 4 comments)
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12 Nov 2025
Simplified modeling of the impact of lithospheric-scale geological processes on thermal histories and low-temperature thermochronometers
Dawn A. Kellett and David M. Whipp
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-5403,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-5403, 2025
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