Thermal annealing mechanisms of latent fission tracks: Apatite vs. zircon

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 302, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 227-235

  Li, Weixing ^a   Wang, Lumin ^a   Lang, Maik ^a   Trautmann, Christina ^b   Ewing, Rodney C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b GSI HELMHOLTZZENTRUM FÜR SCHWERIONENFORSCHUNG GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Apatite; Brownian motion; Crystallographic effect; In situ thermal annealing; Rayleigh instability; Zircon

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING BEHAVIOR; ATOMIC DENSITY; ATOMIC SCALE; BROWNIAN MOTION; CHEMICAL ETCHING; CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC EFFECT; DIFFERENT MECHANISMS; DIFFUSIVITIES; ELEVATED TEMPERATURE; EPITAXIAL RECRYSTALLIZATION; ETCHED TRACKS; FISSION TRACK; FISSION-TRACK DATING; HIGH SURFACE ENERGY; IN-SITU; IN-SITU HEATING; INTERNAL STRUCTURE; INTERSTITIALS; LATENT TRACKS; LOW SURFACE ENERGY; MATRIX BOUNDARY; MOTION OF ATOMS; RAPID ANNEALING; RAYLEIGH INSTABILITY; SURROUNDING MATRIX; TEM; THERMAL-ANNEALING; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; TRACK SEGMENTS;

ANNEALING; ATOMS; BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; ETCHING; FISSION REACTIONS; INTERFACIAL ENERGY; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; SHRINKAGE; SILICATE MINERALS; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ZIRCON;

APATITE;

APATITE; BROWNIAN MOTION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; FISSION TRACK DATING; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; RECRYSTALLIZATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ZIRCON;

EID: 78751567799     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.12.016     Document Type: Article

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