Interpreting data dispersion and " inverted" dates in apatite (U-Th)/He and fission-track datasets: An example from the US midcontinent

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 75, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 5169-5186

  Flowers, Rebecca M ^a   Kelley, Shari A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APATITE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CORRELATION; CRATON; DATA INTERPRETATION; FISSION TRACK DATING; GRAIN SIZE; GUIDELINE; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; URANIUM SERIES DATING;

KANSAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80051469256     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2011.06.016     Document Type: Article

References (48)

1. Ault A.K., Flowers R.M., Bowring S.A. Phanerozoic burial and unroofing history of the western Slave craton and Wopmay orogen from apatite (U-Th)/He thermochronometry. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 2009, 284:1-11.
2. Blackburn T.J., Stockli D.F., Carlson R.W., Berendsen P. (U-Th)/He dating of kimberlites-A case study from north-eastern Kansas. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 2008, 275:111-120.
3. Blackwell D. D. and Steele J. L. (1989) Heat flow and geothermal potential of Kansas. In Geophysics of Kansas (eds. D. W. Steeples). Kansas Geol. Surv. Bull. 226, 267-295.
4. Brookins D.G., Naeser C.W. Age of emplacement of Riley County, Kansas, kimberlites and a possible minimum age for the Dakota sandstone. Geol. Soc. Amer. Bull. 1971, 82:1723-1725.
5. Bunker B.J., Witzke B.J., Watney W.L., Ludvigson G.A. Phanerozoic history of the central midcontinent, United States. Sedimentary Cover-North American Craton, The Geology of North America 1988, 243-260. Geological Society of America, D-2, Boulder, Colorado. L.L. Sloss (Ed.).
6. Carlson W.D., Donelick R.A., Ketcham R.A. Variability of apatite fission-track annealing kinetics: I. Experimental results. Amer. Min. 1999, 84:1213-1233.
7. Crowley K.D., Cameron M., Schaefer R.L. Experimental studies of annealing of etched fission tracks in fluorapatite. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 1991, 55:1449-1465.
8. Crowley P.D., Reiners P.W., Reuter J.M., Kaye G.D. Laramide exhumation of the Bighorn Mountains, Wyoming: an apatite (U-Th)/He thermochronology study. Geology 2002, 30:27-30.
9. Danisik M., Sachsenhofer R.F., Privalov V.A., Panova E.A., Frisch W., Spiegel C. Low-temperature thermal evolution of the Azov Massif (Ukrainian Shield-Ukraine)-implications for interpreting (U-Th)/He and fission track ages from cratons. Tectonophysics 2008, 456:171-179.
10. Donelick R.A. Crystallographic orientation dependence of mean etchable fission track length in apatite: an empirical model and experimental observations. Amer. Min. 1991, 76:83-91.
11. Donelick R.A., Ketcham R.A., Carlson W.D. Variability of apatite fission track annealing kinetics II: crystallographic orientation effects. Amer. Min. 1999, 84:1224-1234.
12. Farley K.A. Helium diffusion from apatite: general behavior as illustrated by Durango fluorapatite. J. Geophys. Res. 2000, 105:2903-2914.
13. Farley K. A. and Stockli D. (2002) (U-Th)/He dating of phosphates: apatite, monazite, and xenotime. In Phosphates (eds. M. Kohn, J. Rakovan and J. M. Hughes). Rev. Mineral. Geochem. 15, 559-578.
14. Farley K.A., Shuster D.L., Ketcham R.A. U and Th zonation in apatite observed by laser ablation ICPMS an implications for the (U-Th)/He system. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 2011, 75:4515-4530.
15. Farley K.A., Wolf R.A., Silver L.T. The effect of long alpha-stopping distances on (U-Th)/He ages. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta. 1996, 60:4223-4229.
16. Fitzgerald P.G., Baldwin S.L., Webb L.E., O'Sullivan P.B. Interpretation of (U-Th)/He single grain ages from slowly cooled crustal terranes: a case study from the Transantarctic Mountains of southern Victoria Land. Chem. Geol. 2006, 225:91-120.
17. Flowers R.M. Exploiting radiation damage control on apatite (U-Th)/He dates in cratonic regions. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 2009, 277:148-155.
18. Flowers R.M., Shuster D.L., Wernicke B.P., Farley K.A. Radiation damage control on apatite (U-Th)/He dates from the Grand Canyon region, Colorado Plateau. Geology 2007, 35:447-450.
19. Flowers R.M., Ketcham R.A., Shuster D.L., Farley K.A. Apatite (U-Th)/He thermochronometry using a radiation damage accumulation and annealing model. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 2009, 73:2347-2365.
20. Gallagher K. Evolving temperature histories from apatite fission-track data. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 1995, 136:421-435.
21. Gleadow A.J.W. Fission-track dating methods: what are the real alternatives?. Nucl. Tracks Rad. Meas. 1981, 5:3-14.
22. Gosnold W. D. and Eversoll D. A. (1983) An inventory of Geothermal Resources in Nebraska. DOE Report, DOE/ET/27205-T1, p. 291.
23. Green P.F., Duddy I.R. Interpretation of apatite (U-Th)/He ages and fission track ages from cratons. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 2006, 244:541-547.
24. Green P.F., Crowhurst P.V., Duddy I.R., Japsen P., Holford S.P. Conflicting (U-Th)/He and fission track ages in apatite: enhanced He retention, not anomalous annealing behavior. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 2006, 250:407-427.
25. Green P.F., Duddy I.R., Gleadow A.J.W., Tingate P.R., Laslett G. Thermal annealing of fission tracks in apatite 1. A qualitative description. Chem. Geol. 1986, 59:237-253.
26. Hansen K., Reiners P.W. Low temperature thermochronology of the southern East Greenland continental margin: evidence from apatite (U-Th)/He and fission track analysis and implications for intermethod calibration. Lithos 2006, 92:117-136.
27. Hendriks B.W.H., Redfield T.F. Apatite fission track and (U-Th)/He data from Fennoscandia: an example of underestimation of fission track annealing in apatite. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 2005, 236:443-458.
28. Hourigan J.K., Reiners P.W., Brandon M.T. U-Th zonation-dependent alpha-ejection in (U-Th)/He chronometry. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 2005, 69:3349-3365.
29. Jewett J.M. Geologic Map of Kansas 1964, State Geol. Surv. of Kansas, Lawrence, KS.
30. Jolivet M., Dempster T., Cox R. Distribution of U and Th in apatites: implications for (U-Th)/He thermochronology. C.R. Geosci. 2003, 335:899-906.
31. Kasuya M., Naeser C.W. The effect of alpha-damage on fission-track annealing in zircon. Nucl. Tracks Rad. Meas. 1988, 14:477-480.
32. Kelley S.A., Chapin C.E., Corrigan J. Mesozoic to Cenozoic cooling histories of the flanks of the northern and central Rio Grande rift, Colorado and New Mexico. New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Min. Res. Bull. 1992, 145:39.
33. Ketcham R.A. (2005) Forward and inverse modeling of low temperature thermochronometry data. In Low-temperature Thermochronology: Techniques, Interpretations, and Applications (eds. P. W. Reiners and T. A. Ehlers). Rev. Mineral. Geochem. 58, 275-314.
34. Ketcham R.A., Carter A.C., Donelick R.A., Barbarand J., Hurford A.J. Improved modeling of fission-track annealing in apatite. Amer. Min. 2007, 92:799-810.
35. Ketcham R.A., Donelick R.A., Balestrieri M.L., Zattin M. Reproducibility of apatite fission-track length data and thermal history reconstruction. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 2009, 284:504-515.
36. Kohn B., Lorencak M., Gleadow A. J. W., Kohlmann A., Raza A., Osadetz K. and Sorjonen-War P. (2009) Low-temperature thermochronology of the eastern Fennoscandian Shield and radiation enhanced annealing revisited. Geol. Soc. London Special Publication 324.
37. Laslett G.M., Kendall W.S., Gleadow A.J.W., Duddy I.R. Bias in measurement of fission-track length distributions. Nucl. Tracks and Rad. Meas. 1982, 170:79-85.
38. Meesters A.G.C.A., Dunai T.J. Solving the production-diffusion equation for finite domains of various shapes Part II. Applications to cases with α-ejection and non-homogeneous distribution of the source. Chem. Geol. 2002, 186:347-363.
39. Reiners P.W., Farley K.A. Influence of crystal size on apatite (U-Th)/He thermochronology: an example from the Bighorn Mountains, Wyoming. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 2001, 188:413-420.
40. Shuster D.L., Farley K.A. The influence of artificial radiation damage and thermal annealing on helium diffusion kinetics in apatite. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 2009, 73:183-196.
41. Shuster D.L., Flowers R.M., Farley K.A. The influence of natural radiation damage on helium diffusion kinetics in apatite. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 2006, 249:148-161.
42. Sloss L.L. Sequences in the cratonic interior of North America. Geol. Soc. Amer. Bull. 1963, 74:93-114.
43. Spiegel C., Kohn B., Belton D., Berner Z., Gleadow A.J.W. Apatite (U-Th-Sm)/He thermochronology of rapidly cooled samples: the effect of He implantation. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 2009, 285:105-119.
44. Spotila J.A., Bank G.C., Reiners P.W., Naeser C.W., Naeser N.D., Henika B.S. Origin of the Blue Ridge escarpment along the passive margin of eastern North America. Basin Res. 2004, 16:41-63.
45. Stayes S. A. and Steeples D. W. (1982) Relationships between geology and geothermal gradients in Kansas. In Geothermal Direct Heat Program Roundup Technical Conference Proceedings, 1, DOE/ID/12079-71 (ed. C. A. Ruscetta). pp. 88-121.
46. Stephenson J., Gallagher K., Holmes C. A bayesian approach to calibrating apatite fission track annealing models for laboratory and geological timescales. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 2006, 70:5183-5200.
47. Van Schmus W. R., Bickford M. E. and Zietz I. (1987) Early and middle Proterozoic provinces in the central United States. In Proterozoic Lithospheric Evolution (ed. A. Kroner). Amer. Geophys. Union Geodynamic Series, 17, 43-68.
48. Vermeesch P., Seward D., Latkoczy C., Wipf M., Gunther D., Baur H. Alpha-emitting mineral inclusions in apatite, their effect of (U-Th)/He ages, and how to reduce it. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 2007, 71:1737-1746.