A new approach to crystallographic orientation measurement for apatite fission track analysis: Effects of crystal morphology and implications for automation

Chemical Geology

Volumn 265, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 527-539

  Peternell, Mark ^a   Kohlmann, Fabian ^a   Wilson, Christopher J L ^a   Seiler, Christian ^a   Gleadow, Andrew J W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Apatite; c axis; Fabric Analyser; Fabric quantification; Fission track

Indexed keywords

APATITE; AUTOMATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; FISSION TRACK DATING; GRAIN BOUNDARY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MICROSTRUCTURE; MORPHOLOGY; PIXEL; PREFERRED ORIENTATION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

EID: 67650236128     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2009.05.021     Document Type: Article

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