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| Titel |
Improving the apatite fission-track annealing algorithm |
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Elco Luijendijk, Paul Andriessen, Marlies ter Voorde, Ronald van Balen |
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EGU General Assembly 2017
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Artikel
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| Sprache |
en
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| Digitales Dokument |
PDF |
| Erschienen |
In: GRA - Volume 19 (2017) |
| Datensatznummer |
250144080
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| Publikation (Nr.) |
 EGU/EGU2017-7863.pdf |
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| Zusammenfassung |
| Low-temperature thermochronology is a key tool to quantifying the thermal history and exhumation of the crust. The interpretation of one of the most widely-used thermochronometers, apatite fission-track analysis, relies on models that relate fission track density to temperature history. These models have been calibrated to fission-track data from the Otway basin, Australia. We discuss geological evidence that the current benchmark dataset is located in a basin in which rocks may have been warmer in the past than previously assumed. We recalibrate the apatite fission-track annealing algorithm to a dataset from Southern Texas with a well-constrained thermal history. We show that current models underestimate the temperature at which fission tracks anneal completely by 19 ˚C to 34 ˚C. Exhumation rates derived from fission-track data have been underestimated; at normal geothermal gradients estimates may have to be revised upward by 500 to 2000 m. The results also have implications for the (U-Th)/He thermochronometer, because radiation damage influences the diffusivity of helium in apatites. The difference in modelled (U-Th)/He ages is approximately 10% for samples that have undergone a long cooling history. We also present a new Python code that can be used for forward or inverse modelling of fission track data using the new annealing algorithm. |
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