Paul R. Renne is an American geologist, born in 1957 in San Antonio, Texas, who directs the Berkeley Geochronology Center and holds a faculty appointment in the Department of Earth and Planetary Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a leading practitioner of the argon-argon dating technique, a refinement of potassium-argon dating that measures the ratio of argon isotopes released by a sample under irradiation to determine its age with high precision. His research has focused on precisely dating the Siberian Traps flood basalts and their relationship to the end-Permian mass extinction, and he has also applied argon-argon dating to volcanic ash layers bracketing early human fossil sites in East Africa.
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Paul R. Renne (born 1957 in San Antonio, Texas) is an American academic who is the director of the Berkeley Geochronology Center and also Professor in Residence of geology in the Department of Earth & Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley).
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