Natural long-term annealing of the zircon fission-track system in Vienna Basin deep borehole samples: Constraints upon the partial annealing zone and closure temperature

Chemical Geology

Volumn 130, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 147-157

  Tagami, Takahiro ^a,b   Carter, Andrew ^a   Hurford, Anthony J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; CLOSURE TEMPERATURE; CRETACEOUS; FISSION TRACK DATING; TERTIARY; THERMAL STABILITY;

EUROPE, VIENNA BASIN;

EID: 0030454570     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0009-2541(96)00016-2     Document Type: Article

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