Diffusion in accessory minerals: zircon, titanite, apatite, monazite and xenotime

DJ Cherniak - Reviews in mineralogy and geochemistry, 2010 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
In this chapter, an overview of the findings to date from laboratory measurements of diffusion
of cations in the accessory mineral phases zircon, monazite, apatite, titanite (sphene) and …

[PDF][PDF] Helium diffusion in natural zircon: Radiation damage, anisotropy, and the interpretation of zircon (U-Th)/He thermochronology

WR Guenthner, PW Reiners, RA Ketcham… - American Journal of …, 2013 - ajsonline.org
Accurate thermochronologic interpretation of zircon (U-Th)/He dates requires a realistic and
practically useful understanding of He diffusion kinetics in natural zircon, ideally across the …

(U-Th)/He chronology: Part 1. Data, uncertainty, and reporting

RM Flowers, PK Zeitler, M Danišík, PW Reiners… - …, 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The field of (U-Th)/He geochronology and thermochronology has grown enormously over
the past∼ 25 years. The tool is applicable across much of geologic time, new (U-Th)/He …

Apatite (U–Th)/He thermochronometry using a radiation damage accumulation and annealing model

RM Flowers, RA Ketcham, DL Shuster… - … et Cosmochimica acta, 2009 - Elsevier
Helium diffusion from apatite is a sensitive function of the volume fraction of radiation
damage to the crystal, a quantity that varies over the lifetime of the apatite. Using recently …

Diffusion of noble gases in minerals

EF Baxter - Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry, 2010 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The study of the diffusion of the six noble gas elements, helium (He), neon (Ne), argon (Ar),
krypton (Kr), xenon (Xe), and radon (Rn) in minerals has spanned many decades with the …

Effect of alpha-damage annealing on apatite (U–Th)/He thermochronology

C Gautheron, L Tassan-Got, J Barbarand, M Pagel - Chemical Geology, 2009 - Elsevier
Recent data on He diffusion challenge the temperature sensitivity of apatite (U–Th)/He
thermochronology: the damage induced by recoil of U and Th decay series during emission …

Innovations in (U–Th)/He, fission track, and trapped charge thermochronometry with applications to earthquakes, weathering, surface‐mantle connections, and the …

AK Ault, C Gautheron, GE King - Tectonics, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
A transformative advance in Earth science is the development of low‐temperature
thermochronometry to date Earth surface processes or quantify the thermal evolution of …

Evolution of uranium and thorium minerals

RM Hazen, RC Ewing… - American …, 2009 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The origins and near-surface distributions of the~ 250 known uranium and/or thorium
minerals elucidate principles of mineral evolution. This history can be divided into four …

Thermal evolution and maturation of lower Paleozoic source rocks in the Tarim Basin, northwest China

N Qiu, J Chang, Y Zuo, J Wang, H Li - AAPG bulletin, 2012 - archives.datapages.com
ABSTRACT The Tarim Basin is one of the richest basins in oil and gas resources in China.
The Cambrian and Middle–Upper Ordovician strata are the most important source rocks …

Interpreting data dispersion and “inverted” dates in apatite (U–Th)/He and fission-track datasets: An example from the US midcontinent

RM Flowers, SA Kelley - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2011 - Elsevier
New apatite (U–Th)/He (AHe) and apatite fission-track (AFT) data were acquired for cratonic
basement samples from an 80m span of drillcore in northeastern Kansas. The short depth …