**Meet the editor**

Nils-Axel Mörner received his Ph.D. in Quaternary Geology at Stockholm University in 1969. He was head of a personal institute at Stockholm University and the Swedish National Council on Paleogeophysics & Geodynamics (P&G) from 1991 up to his retirement in 2005. He has written many hundreds of research papers and several books. He is a global traveler and has under-

taken field studies in 47 different countries. Several students have taken their doctoral degree at the P&G institute, which became an international centre for paleoseismics, neotectonics, paleomagnetism and global sea level changes. He was president of the INQUA Neotectonics Commission (1981-1989) and president of the INQUA Commission on Sea Level Changes and Coastal Dynamics (1999-2003). In 2008, he was awarded the Golden Condrite of Merit (from Algarve University) "for his irreverence and contribution to our understanding of sea level change".

Contents

**Preface VII**

Chapter 1 **Quaternary Geochronology Using Accelerator Mass**

**TONO Geoscience Center 3**

**Isotopic Methodologies 91**

Chapter 2 **Luminescence Chronology 31** Ken Munyikwa

Chapter 3 **Varve Chronology 73** Nils-Axel Mörner

**Section 2 The Pre-Quaternary 89**

Antunes Imhr

**Section 3 The Precambrian 141**

**Recontructions 109**

**Spectrometry (AMS) – Current Status of the AMS System at the**

Akihiro Matsubara, Yoko Saito-Kokubu, Akimitsu Nishizawa, Masayasu Miyake, Tsuneari Ishimaru and Koji Umeda

Chapter 4 **Geochronology From The Castelo Branco Pluton (Portugal) —**

Chapter 5 **In situ U-Pb Dating Combined with SEM Imaging on Zircon — An Analytical Bond for Effective Geological**

Chapter 6 **Layered PGE Paleoproterozoic (LIP) Intrusions in the N-E Part of**

Annamaria Fornelli, Giuseppe Piccarreta and Francesca Micheletti

**the Fennoscandian Shield — Isotope Nd-Sr and 3He/4He Data, Summarizing U-Pb Ages (on Baddeleyite and Zircon), Sm-Nd**

**Section 1 The Quaternary 1**
