Long-term anthropogenic change in South Australian gulfs recorded by the faviid coral Plesiastrea versipora

High-precision 238U–234U–230Th disequilibrium dating of the recent past: a review

“…TIMS and single-collector HR-ICPMS have been commonly used for dating young carbonates (Edwards et al, 1988;Denniston et al, 2000;Cobb et al, 2003a,b;Fleitmann et al, 2004;Yuan et al, 2004;He et al, 2005;Kirch and Sharp, 2005;Wang et al, 2005;Weisler et al, 2006;Yu et al, 2006a,b;Lorrey et al, 2008;Shen et al, 2008) while MC-ICPMS has only occasionally been used to date young corals (Fietzke et al, 2005;Burgess et al, 2006;Hu et al, 2008;McCulloch and Mortimer, 2008). This is largely due to the fact that the MC-ICPMS technique became available only recently and that the protocols for dating extremely young carbonates are still being developed.…”