Helium diffusion in rutile and titanite, and consideration of the origin and implications of diffusional anisotropy

Chemical Geology

Volumn 288, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 149-161

  Cherniak, D J ^a   Watson, E B ^a  

^a Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion; Helium; Nuclear reaction analysis; Rutile; Thermochronology; Titanite (sphene)

Indexed keywords

ARRHENIUS RELATIONS; AXIAL DIFFUSION; CYLINDRICAL GEOMETRY; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENTS; DIFFUSIVITIES; FINITE-ELEMENT CODES; GRAIN SIZE; NUCLEAR REACTION ANALYSIS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; RELATIVE DIFFUSIVITY; RELEASE EXPERIMENTS; RUTILE; SYNTHETIC RUTILE; TEMPERATURE RANGE; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; TITANITE (SPHENE);

ACTIVATION ENERGY; ANISOTROPY; APATITE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); DIFFUSION IN SOLIDS; EXPERIMENTS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HELIUM; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; SILICATES; ZIRCON;

OXIDE MINERALS;

ACTIVATION ENERGY; ANISOTROPY; DIFFUSIVITY; HELIUM; RUTILE; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; TITANITE; ZIRCON;

EID: 80052273916     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2011.07.015     Document Type: Article

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