Published February 2011
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The Beginnings of Isotope Hydrology in Italy: The Pisa Nuclear Geology Laboratory
Description
The Pisa Nuclear Geology Laboratory was created in the mid-1950s by Prof. Ezio Tongiorgi (Milan, 1912- Pisa, 1987), and was the first in Italy and among the first in Europe to apply isotope and nuclear techniques in geology. Tongiorgi had in fact had early intuition about the role nuclear and isotopic techniques were going to play in Earth sciences. The main techniques available in the laboratory at the time were carbon-14 dating of archaeological samples using low level counting (the counting gas was acetylene), with pleochroic halos and thermoluminescence as rock dating tools. Shortly after, Rb-Sr and K-Ar rock dating techniques were added to the laboratory equipment
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Publishing Information
- Publisher
- IAEA
- Imprint Place
- Vienna (Austria)
- Imprint Title
- Water and Environment News, No. 28, February 2011
- Imprint Pagination
- 28 p.
- Journal Page Range
- p. 23-27
- ISSN
- 1020-7120
- Report number
- INIS-XA--11E0047
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Austria
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 42056608
- Subject category
- S58: GEOSCIENCES;
- Descriptors DEI
- CARBON 14; HYDROLOGY; ISOTOPE DATING; ITALY
- Descriptors DEC
- AGE ESTIMATION; BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; CARBON ISOTOPES; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; EUROPE; EVEN-EVEN NUCLEI; ISOTOPES; LIGHT NUCLEI; NUCLEI; RADIOISOTOPES; WESTERN EUROPE; YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES
Optional Information
- Notes
- 18 refs, 1 fig., 5 photos