Variability of apatite fission-track annealing kinetics: II. Crystallographic orientation effects

American Mineralogist

Volumn 84, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1224-1234

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

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ANNEALING; APATITE; ITERATIVE METHODS;

ANNEALING EXPERIMENTS; ANNEALING KINETICS; APATITE FISSION TRACKS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC ORIENTATIONS; DURANGO APATITE; GEOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENT; ITERATIVE PROCESS; NATURAL FISSION;

FISSION REACTIONS;

ANNEALING; APATITE; FISSION TRACK DATING;

EID: 0033395153     PISSN: 0003004X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2138/am-1999-0902     Document Type: Article

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