A zero-damage model for fission-track annealing in zircon

American Mineralogist

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 473-484

  Rahn, Meinert K ^a   Brandon, Mark T ^b   Batt, Geoffrey E ^c   Garver, John I ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNION COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECAY (ORGANIC); FISSION REACTIONS; GEOLOGIC MODELS; NUCLEAR REACTIONS; SILICATE MINERALS; THERMONUCLEAR REACTIONS; ZIRCON;

ANNEALING EXPERIMENTS; ANNEALING TEMPERATURES; CLOSURE TEMPERATURES; COMPREHENSIVE MODEL; SEDIMENTARY SAMPLES; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; TEMPERATURE EVOLUTION; ZIRCON FISSION TRACKS;

ANNEALING;

ANNEALING; DAMAGE; FISSION TRACK DATING; MINERALOGY; ZIRCON;

EID: 1942499449     PISSN: 0003004X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2138/am-2004-0401     Document Type: Article

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