Natural long-term annealing of the zircon fission track system around a granitic pluton

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 8245-8255

  Tagami, Takahiro ^a   Shimada, Chica ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; FISSION TRACK DATING; GRANITE PLUTON; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; ZIRCON;

JAPAN, SHIKOKU;

EID: 0029754651     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/95jb02885     Document Type: Article

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