Course Title　　 Isotope geochemistry

Credits　　 2

Hours　　 36

Course Description

　　Isotope geochemistry has become one of the most important fields in the Earth sciences as well as in geochemistry, which is a new discipline involving chemistry, physics, mass spectrometry, new experimental techniques as well as geology. It has two broad subdivisions: radiogenic isotope geochemistry and stable isotope geochemistry.
　　Isotope geochemistry focuses on the following three aspects: 1) the early application including determining the abundance of isotopes in nature to constrain models of the nucleus nature and models of nucleosynthesis (the origin of the elements); 2) the most important application remaining geochronology and cosmochronology: the determination of the timing of events in the history of the Earth and the Solar System; 3) it serves as tracers to explore geological and environmental processes.