A repositioning technique for counting induced fission tracks in muscovite external detectors in single-grain dating of minerals with low and inhomogeneous uranium concentrations

Radiation Measurements

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 217-219

  Jonckheere, Raymond ^a   Ratschbacher, Lothar ^a   Wagner, Günther A ^b  

^a TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR KERNPHYSIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

External detector method; Fission track dating

Indexed keywords

ETCHING; FISSION REACTIONS; SEDIMENTS; SURFACES; URANIUM;

FISSION TRACKS;

RADIATION DETECTORS;

EID: 0038017176     PISSN: 13504487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1350-4487(03)00029-5     Document Type: Article

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