Accounting for long alpha-particle stopping distances in (U-Th-Sm)/He geochronology: Refinement of the baseline case

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 75, Issue 24, 2011, Pages 7779-7791

  Ketcham, Richard A ^a   Gautheron, Cécile ^b   Tassan Got, Laurent ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; HELIUM; PARAMETERIZATION; SAMARIUM; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; THORIUM; URANIUM;

EID: 81355147815     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2011.10.011     Document Type: Article

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