Variability of apatite fission-track annealing kinetics: III. Extrapolation to geological time scales

American Mineralogist

Volumn 84, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1235-1255

  Ketcham, Richard A ^a   Donelick, Raymond A ^b,c   Carlson, William D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; APATITE; ARRHENIUS PLOTS; CURVE FITTING; DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS; GEOLOGY; LABORATORIES; TIME MEASUREMENT;

ANNEALING BEHAVIOR; ANNEALING KINETICS; APATITE FISSION TRACKS; CONVERSION EQUATION; EMPIRICAL EQUATIONS; PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS; TIME-TEMPERATURE HISTORY; TWO-PARAMETER EQUATION;

FISSION REACTIONS;

ANNEALING; APATITE; FISSION TRACK DATING;

EID: 0033378405     PISSN: 0003004X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2138/am-1999-0903     Document Type: Article

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