Advantages and challenges of automated apatite fission track counting

Chemical Geology

Volumn 322-323, Issue , 2012, Pages 278-289

  Enkelmann, Eva ^a   Ehlers, Todd A ^a   Buck, Gerald ^a   Schatz, Ann Kathrin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Apatite; Automated counting; Fission track dating; Thermochronology

Indexed keywords

APATITE FISSION TRACKS; AUTOMATED COUNTING; AUTOSCAN; CONVENTIONAL APPROACH; CORE ELEMENTS; CORRECTION PROCEDURE; FISSION TRACK; FISSION-TRACK DATING; IMAGE FILTERING; SAMPLE COMPLEXITY; SURFACE AREA; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; THERMOCHRONOMETRY; TRACK COUNTING; TRACK DENSITY; UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE;

APATITE; FISSION REACTIONS; MICA;

AUTOMATION;

APATITE; AUTOMATION; COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENUDATION; FISSION TRACK DATING; SOFTWARE; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

EID: 84865162705     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2012.07.013     Document Type: Article

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