Time scale reconstruction
Probabilistic concepts needed in dating. Quantitative interpretation of dates.
Dating uncertainties - their sources and how they can be interpreted.
Correspondence of dating results. Comparing and averaging of dates.
Association between date and dated event. Impact of geological and other
natural processes on dating results. Non-linear relationship between
calendar time scale and radiocarbon time scale. Bayesian approach to
calibration procedure. Probabilistic calibration of radiocarbon
dates - interpretation of the results. Calibrating a eries of dates.
The influence of calibration on statistical inference concerning time
intervals. "Wiggle-matching" method. Chronology construction and time
scale reconstruction methods. Bayesian method of combining dating results
and other geological or archaeological information in application to
chronology construction. Construction of stratigraphic information models
(phases, sequences, sequences with known or approximate gaps, boundaries,
temini) for purpose of combining method. Analysis of large number of
dates in order to time scale reconstruction - frequency histograms and
composite probability density distributions. Time scale reconstruction
based on long series of data (SPECMAP, dendrochronology). Methods of
construction of "age-depth" models. Correlation of time scale records.
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