Confined fission tracks in ion-irradiated and step-etched prismatic sections of Durango apatite

Chemical Geology

Volumn 242, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 202-217

  Jonckheere, Raymond ^a   Enkelmann, Eva ^a   Min, Myo ^a   Trautmann, Christina ^b   Ratschbacher, Lothar ^a  

^a TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

^b GSI HELMHOLTZZENTRUM FÜR SCHWERIONENFORSCHUNG GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Confined track length; Fission track modelling; Geometrical bias; Ion irradiation; Observation bias; Step etching

Indexed keywords

APATITE; DATA SET; ETCHING; FISSION TRACK DATING; IRRADIATION;

DURANGO; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 34250788193     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2007.03.015     Document Type: Article

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