A Monte Carlo approach to diffusion applied to noble gas/helium thermochronology

Chemical Geology

Volumn 273, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 212-224

  Gautheron, Cécile ^a   Tassan Got, Laurent ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

(U Th) He; Anisotropic diffusion; Monte Carlo simulation; Noble gas diffusion; Thermochronology

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; ANISOTROPY; BROWNIAN MOTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; GEOMETRY; HELIUM; ISOTROPY; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NOBLE GAS; RADIOMETRIC METHOD; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

EID: 77952290511     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2010.02.023     Document Type: Article

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