Statistical modelling of annealing kinetics of fission tracks in zircon; Reassessment of laboratory experiments

Chemical Geology

Volumn 236, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 75-91

  Yamada, Ryuji ^a   Murakami, Masaki ^b   Tagami, Takahiro ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Annealing kinetics; Fission track; Laboratory experiment; NST zircon; Thermal history analysis

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; DACITE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FISSION TRACK DATING; HEATING; KINETICS; LABORATORY METHOD; ZIRCON;

EID: 33750984217     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2006.09.002     Document Type: Article

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