Overview

Since 1980, progress in research on the fission-track dating method and its applications to earth and related sciences has been evaluated during an International Workshop that takes place every four years. This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the International Workshop held in Ghent, Belgium from 26 to 30 August, 1996. Primarily the articles will be of interest to the active fission-track scientists but the combination of research papers and critical reviews that is presented may also provide the interested non-specialist reader with an insight into the fission-track dating method and its role in the earth sciences. This reader should note the evolution that the method has undergone since the 1980s, from a technique that was debated in most of its facets to an established chronometric tool with unique qualities in geothermochronology.

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Author:   P. van den Haute ,  Frans De Corte
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   1998 ed.
Volume:   10
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   1.490kg
ISBN:  

9780792349044

ISBN 10:   0792349040
Pages:   333
Publication Date:   30 April 1998
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Section I: Track Fundamentals, Dating Methodology and Age Calibration.- High-resolution microscopy of latent tracks induced by high-energy heavy ions.- Zeta: the ultimate solution to fission-track analysis calibration or just an interim measure?.- The parameters that govern the accuracy of fission-track age determinations: a re-appraisal.- A re-investigation of the geometry factors for fission-track dating of apatite, sphene and zircon.- A new U doped glass certified by the European Commission for the calibration of fission-track dating.- Section II: Track Annealing.- Uranium-235 fission track annealing in minerals of the apatite group: an experimental study.- Mathematical convection methodology using Bertagnolli and Laslett fission track annealing laws.- Revised annealing kinetics of fission tracks in zircon and geological implications.- Section III: Thermochronology.- Divining burial and thermal histories from indicator data: application & limitations.- Apatite fission track thermochronology of Paleozoic sandstones and the Hill-intrusion, Northern Linksrheinisches Schiefergebirge, Germany.- Evidence for the unroofing history of Hercynian granitoids in central Portugal derived from late Palaeozoic and Mesozoic sedimentary zircons.- Apatite fission-track thermochronology of the uppermost tectonic unit of Crete, Greece: implications for the post-Eocene tectonic evolution of the Hellenic Subduction System.- Post-orogenic cooling history of Eastern South Australia from apatite FT thermochronology.- Cooling and denudation history of Western Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica, based on apatite fission-tracks.- Multiple thermal evolution of Oates Land (Northern Victoria Land, Antarctica): evidence from apatite fission track analysis.- Effects of surface cooling on apatite fission-track data: evidence for Miocene climatic change, North Slope, Alaska.- Geomorphic factors in the interpretation of fission-track data.- Section IV: Glass Studies.- Potential glass age standards for fission-track dating: an overview.- Age determination of obsidian source samples from North Queensland and New South Wales, Australia.- Fission track dating and provenience of archaeological obsidian artefacts in Colombia and Ecuador.- Technical Note: A better way to separate apatite from zircon using constriction tubes.- Author Index.

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