“…(U-Th)/He geochronology and thermochronology of hematite has been used to quantify the time-scales of lateritic weathering (Pidgeon et al, 2004;Danišík et al, 2013;Cooper et al, 2016;Wells et al, 2019), fault activity (Adams et al, 2013;Evenson et al, 2014;Ault et al, 2015Ault et al, , 2016McDermott et al, 2017;Moser et al, 2017;Calzolari et al, 2018;Garcia et al, 2018), episodes of hydrothermal mineralization Lippolt, 1993, 1994a,b;Bähr et al, 1994;Lippolt et al, 1995;Wernicke and Lippolt, 1997;Farley and Flowers, 2012;Farley and McKeon, 2015;van den Kerkhof et al, 2018;Jensen et al, 2018;Wu et al, 2019), and diagenetic cementation (Reiners et al, 2014). Highly retentive hematite samples must be heated to >1000…”