Annealing kinetics of Kr-tracks in monazite: Implications for fission-track modelling

Chemical Geology

Volumn 260, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 129-137

  Weise, Carsten ^a   van den Boogaart, K Gerald ^a   Jonckheere, Raymond ^a   Ratschbacher, Lothar ^a  

^a TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Annealing kinetics; Ion tracks; Monazite; T t path modelling

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL MINERALOGY; FISSION TRACK DATING; KRYPTON; MONAZITE; NUMERICAL MODEL; P-T-T PATH; REACTION KINETICS; SIMULATED ANNEALING;

EID: 60249100300     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2008.12.014     Document Type: Article

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