by Motoji Ikeya (Osaka University, Japan)

This is the first book covering an interdisciplinary field between microwave spectroscopy of electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) or electron spin resonance (ESR) and chronology science, radiation dosimetry and ESR (EPR) imaging in material sciences. The main object is to determine the elapsed time with ESR from forensic medicine to the age and radiation dose in earth and space science. This book is written primarily for earth scientists as well as for archaeologists and for physicists and chemists interested in new applications of the method. This book can serve as an undergraduate and graduate school textbook on applications of ESR to geological and archaeological dating, radiation dosimetry and microscopic magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Introduction to ESR and chronology science and principle of ESR dating and dosimetry are described with applications to actual problems according to materials.

• Clocks of Elapsed Time — The Place of ESR Dating
• Introduction to ESR — What is ESR?
• ESR Dating and Dosimetry: Principles and Procedures
• Assessment of Radiation Dose
• CaCO₃: Cave Deposits
• CaCO₃: Biocarbonates (Fossils)
• Evaporites: Sulfates and Other Minerals
• Phosphates: Bioapatite for Anthropology
• SiO₂: Rocks, Faults and Sediments
• Silica and Silicates: Geotherm and Volcanism
• Solid H₂ and CO₂: Space and Environmental Sciences
• Chemical ESR Dating: Organic Materials
• ESR Dosimetry: Dosimeter, A-Bomb and Chernobyl
• Accident and Foodstuffs
• ESR Microscopy: Scanning Imaging of Spin Density
• CVD-Poly Si Film