Zircon (U-Th)/he thermochronometry

PW Reiners - Reviews in mineralogy and geochemistry, 2005 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
A number of features of zircon (ZrSiO4), including high U-Th concentrations, high
abundance in a wide range of lithologies, refractory nature under metamorphic and some …

Past, present, and future of thermochronology

PW Reiners, TA Ehlers… - Reviews in Mineralogy …, 2005 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
In one form or another, geochronologists have been practicing thermochronology1, the use
of radioisotopic dating to constrain thermal histories of rocks and minerals, for over 40 years …

[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 …

Evidence for middle Eocene and younger land emergence in central Panama: Implications for Isthmus closure

C Montes, A Cardona, R McFadden, SE Morón… - …, 2012 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The rise of the Isthmus of Panama, linked to a number of climatic, paleoceanographic, and
biological events, has been studied mostly from indirect, often distal, geochemical and biotic …

Accounting for long alpha-particle stop** distances in (U–Th–Sm)/He geochronology: Refinement of the baseline case

RA Ketcham, C Gautheron, L Tassan-Got - Geochimica et Cosmochimica …, 2011 - Elsevier
This contribution proposes a number of methodological refinements for accounting for
ejection of energetic particles, most particularly in the case of long alpha-particle stop** …

The rise of New Guinea and the fall of Neogene global temperatures

PE Martin, FA Macdonald… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
The~ 2,000-km-long Central Range of New Guinea is a hotspot of modern carbon
sequestration due to the chemical weathering of igneous rocks with steep topography in 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 …

(U-Th)/He chronology: Part 2. Considerations for evaluating, integrating, and interpreting conventional individual aliquot data

RM Flowers, RA Ketcham, E Enkelmann… - …, 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The (U-Th)/He dating technique is an essential tool in Earth science research with
diverse thermochronologic, geochronologic, and detrital applications. It is now used in a …