A users' guide to fission track dating calibration

Hurford, Anthony J.; Green, Paul F.

doi:10.1016/0012-821x(82)90136-4

Cited by 426 publications

(198 citation statements)

References 28 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

190

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…As many track lengths as possible were measured (up tõ 100), for each sample. Fission track central ages (Galbraith and Laslett, 1993) were calculated using the IUGS-recommended Zeta calibration approach (Hurford and Green, 1982;Hurford, 1990). The weighted mean zeta values for apatite used in this study are 322.1±3.6.…”

Section: Methologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Mesozoic–Tertiary exhumation history of the Altai Mountains, northern Xinjiang, China: New constraints from apatite fission track data

et al. 2006

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Abstract:This study uses apatite fission track (FT) analysis to constrain the exhumation history of bedrock samples collected from the Altai Mountains in northern Xinjiang, China. Samples were collected as transects across the main structures related to Palaeozoic crustal accretion events. FT results and modeling identify three stages in sample cooling history spanning the Mesozoic and Tertiary. Stage one records rapid cooling to the low temperature part of the fission track partial annealing zone circa 70±10°C. Stage two, records a period of relative stability with little if any cooling taking place between ~ 75 Ma and ~25-20 Ma suggesting the Altai region had been reduced to an area of low relief. Support for this can be found in the adjacent Junngar Basin that received little if any sediment during this interval. Final stage cooling took place in the Miocene at an accelerated rate bringing the sampled rocks to the Earth's surface. This last stage, linked to the far field effects of the Himalayan collision, most likely generated the surface uplift and relief that define the present-day Altai Mountains.

show abstract

Section: Methologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Mesozoic–Tertiary exhumation history of the Altai Mountains, northern Xinjiang, China: New constraints from apatite fission track data

et al. 2006

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…There is good evidence that F apatites anneal more readily than CI apatites Green, 1982Green, , 1983. Four topographic profiles were sampled perpendicular to the strike of the orogen (Figures 4 and 6 Miocene FT history of the various samples (volcanic tuff versus clastic sediments of various stratigraphic ages), or an anomalous but poorly constrained FT age (profile C-C').…”

Section: Erosion Of Critical Wedgesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Life cycle of the East Carpathian orogen: Erosion history of a doubly vergent critical wedge assessed by fission track thermochronology

Sanders¹,

Andriessen²,

Cloetingh³

1999

J. Geophys. Res.

109

133

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

“…39 utilised in the 1990s dating program (i and iii by Kohn et al; and ii and iii by Alloway et al). (i) Zeta baseline calibrations were proposed by Hurford & Green (1983) and Green (1985) to circumvent uncertainties associated with the range of constants reported for the spontaneous fission decay of 238 U and technical difficulties in determining absolute thermal neutron fluences during irradiation of samples. These two values are an integral part of the age equation.…”

Section: G Vucetich Waikanaementioning

confidence: 99%