Reproducibility of apatite fission-track length data and thermal history reconstruction

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 284, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 504-515

  Ketcham, Richard A ^a   Donelick, Raymond A ^b   Balestrieri, Maria Laura ^c   Zattin, Massimiliano ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b Apatite to Zircon Incorporated   (United States)

^c SEZIONE DI FIRENZE   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

apatite; fission track; thermal history inversion; thermochronology

Indexed keywords

APATITE FISSION TRACKS; APATITE FISSION-TRACK ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC ORIENTATIONS; DURANGO APATITE; FISSION-TRACK; GEOLOGICAL HISTORY; LENGTH DISTRIBUTIONS; MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES; REPRODUCIBILITY; THERMAL HISTORY; THERMAL HISTORY INVERSION; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; TRACK LENGTHS; TRACK MEASUREMENT;

CRYSTALLINE ROCKS; FISSION REACTIONS; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

APATITE;

APATITE; DATA INVERSION; FISSION TRACK DATING; RECONSTRUCTION; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

EID: 67650513800     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.05.015     Document Type: Article

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