Geochronology and thermochronology provide the temporal framework to quantify the timing, rates, and durations of Earth-system processes, from deep mantle dynamics to surface evolution. Ongoing improvements to established techniques, together with the development of new analytical methods, data reduction strategies, and modeling approaches, are rapidly expanding the resolution and applicability of age and thermal history constraints across the Earth Sciences. This session aims to present recent methodological advances and innovative applications in geochronology and thermochronology across a wide range of temperature sensitivities and timescales. We welcome contributions addressing developments in analytical techniques, theoretical and experimental frameworks, data processing, uncertainty quantification, and forward or inverse modeling, as well as novel or unconventional applications, including attempts to develop new geochronometers or thermochronometers. Contributions integrating geochronology and thermochronology with field observations, geomorphology, remote sensing, isotopic methods, and numerical or analog modeling are especially encouraged. This session highlights how advances in geochronology and thermochronology continue to refine, and in some cases challenge, our understanding of Earth’s dynamic systems.
Besim Dragovic