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On the occurrence of anomalous fission tracks in apatite and titanite

  • Raymond C. Jonckheere EMAIL logo and Günther A. Wagner
Published/Copyright: March 25, 2015
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American Mineralogist
From the journal American Mineralogist Volume 85 Issue 11-12

Abstract

In annealing experiments on natural crystals of apatite and titanite, two types of fission track were observed that had not been identified previously: (1) “stable” tracks, and (2) tracks through fluid inclusions. Stable tracks do not shorten significantly even when heated to temperatures well above those normally sufficient for complete annealing of fission tracks. Tracks through fluid inclusions owe their excessive length to the fact that one fission fragment traveled through a fluid inclusion without appreciable energy loss. If they go undetected, both types of track can distort the temperature-time paths constructed on the basis of confined fission-track-length measurements. Simple measures are proposed to avoid these pitfalls

Received: 1999-8-23
Accepted: 2000-7-8
Published Online: 2015-3-25
Published in Print: 2000-11-1

© 2015 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston

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https://doi.org/10.2138/am-2000-11-1218

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  6. Continuous metamorphic gradient documented by graphitization and K-Ar age, southeast Otago, New Zealand
  7. Kyanite eclogite thermobarometry and evidence for thrusting of UHP over HP metamorphic rocks, Nordøyane, Western Gneiss Region, Norway
  8. Monazite geochronology of UHP and HP metamorphism, deformation, and exhumation, Nordøyane, Western Gneiss Region, Norway
  9. Solubilities of noble metals in Fe-containing silicate melts as derived from experiments in Fe-free systems
  10. Water speciation in silicate glasses and melts: Langmuir limited site model
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