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PREFACE

FROM THE SERIES EDITOR
This volume, Low-Temperature Thermochronology: Techniques, Interpretations, and Applications, was prepared in advance of a short course of the same title, sponsored by MSA and presented at Snowbird, Utah, October 13–15, 2005 prior to the fall GSA meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah. The editors, Peter Reiners (Yale University) and Todd Ehlers (University of Michigan), carefully selected a diverse group of authors in order to produce this volume that assesses the current state-of-the-art in low-temperature thermochronology and provides a convienent context for evaluating advances in analytical and interpretation techniques, future potential, and outstanding issues in the field that have emerged in recent years. The editors and contributing authors have done an excellent job in generating this volume that should find broad use by researchers seeking to incorporate low-temperature thermochronologic constraints in their research.

Readers are encouraged to visit the MSA website (http://www.minsocam.org/MSA/RIM/) in order to access the computer programs outlined in Chapter 22. Errata (if any) can be found at the MSA website www.minsocam.org.

Jodi J. Rosso, Series Editor
West Richland, Washington
August 2005

The publication of this volume occurs at the one-hundredth anniversary of 1905, which has been called the annus mirabilus because it was the year of a number of enormous scientific advances. Among them are four papers by Albert Einstein explaining (among other things) Brownian motion, the photoelectric effect, the special theory of relativity, and the equation E = mc². Also of significance in 1905 was the first application of another major advance in physics, which dramatically changed the fields of Earth and planetary science. In March of 1905 (and published the following year), Ernest Rutherford presented the following in the Silliman Lectures at Yale:

"The helium observed in the radioactive minerals is almost certainly due to its production . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Todd A. Ehlers

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