Encyclopedia of Scientific Dating Methods

Here is another volume in the Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series. I have reviewed several of these over the years. This one stands out as being on methods, rather than on specific topics or geomorphological features. It makes the book of wider interest than some very specific volumes.

As a way into the contents, I looked for those topics that I was interested in to see how they were dated. Dendrochronology is a topic that has developed considerably as I was a student. It was always known that you could age a tree by counting the rings. The construction...