Session Details

This proposed session will be open to all chronological techniques and aims to focus attention on how people are using large chronometric data sets and what advances have been made in Quaternary science as a consequence. There are a growing number of Quaternary scientists which are either amassing very high-resolution chronological datasets or large regional datasets using one or more chronological technique. Whilst in principle a large amount of chronological information should allow better understanding of Quaternary changes it often increases complexity and requires further analysis in order to synthesize results and allow discernment of key palaeoenvironmental changes. This session will:- [1] explore how chronometric data from different dating techniques can best be combined and the difficulties and limitations in doing this. [2] look at ways in which further analysis and combination of chronometric data can be used to improve the resolution and precision of age models. [3] focus on advances in the understanding of Quaternary problems that have been made as a result of construction of high-resolution or large regional chronologies. It is hoped that as a result of this session participants and attendees will have an increased understanding of how such issues are being approached and/or overcome by differing chronometric techniques thereby giving a understand better the potential and limitations of chronometric data for future environmental reconstructions.