References

This is a brief list of the frequently cited low-T thermochronological papers, which has typically some methodological innovation. Some of them are cited at the introduction of our laboratory or at the description of the methods.

 

(U-Th)/He literature         Fission track literature

Aciego, S., Kennedy, B.M., DePaolo, D.J., Christensen, J.N. and Hutcheon, I. (2003): U-Th/He age of phenocrystic garnet from the 79 AD eruption of Mt. Vesuvius. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 219, 209-219.

Bähr R., Lippolt H.J. and Wernicke R.S. (1994): Temperature-induced 4He degassing of specularite and botryoidal hematite: a 4He retentivity study. J. Geophys. Res. 99 (B9), 17695-17707.

Batt, G.E. and Brandon, M.T. (2000): 2-D analysis and the importance of apatite (U-Th)/He dating in convergent orogens: the Olympic Mountains. In: Noble, W.P., O'Sullivan, P.B. and Brown, R.W. (eds.) 9th International Conference on Fission Dating and Thermochronology, Lorne. Geological Society of Australia Abstracts No. 58, 13-14.

Bender M. (1973): Helium-Uranium dating of corals. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 37, 1229-1247.

Blythe, A.E., House, M.A., Spotila, J.A., Farley, K.A. and Burbank, D.W. (2000): Strain partitioning and topographic response of fault blocks along the San Andreas fault, southern California, from apatite fission track, (U-Th)/He and DEM analyses. In: Noble, W.P., O'Sullivan, P.B. and Brown, R.W. (eds.) 9th International Conference on Fission Dating and Thermochronology, Lorne. Geological Society of Australia Abstracts No. 58, 37.

Bradya, R.J. and Spotila, J.A. (2005): Southward-younging apatite (U-Th)/He ages in the northern California Coast Ranges due to a northward-migrating crustal welt. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 235, 107- 122.

Brander, T. and Lippolt, H. J. (2004): Interpretation alter und neuer 4He-Altersdaten vom Quarz-Haematit-Baryt-Gang bei Obersexau/ Brettental. Jahreshefte des Landesamts fuer Geologie, Rohstoffe und Bergbau Baden-Wuerttemberg. 40; 335-348.

Crowhurst, P.V., Green, P.F. and Kamp, P.J.J. (2002): Appraisal of (U-Th)/He apatite thermochronology as a thermal history tool for hydrocarbon exploration: An example from the Taranaki Basin, New Zealand. AAPG Bulletin, 86/10, 1801-1819.

Crowhurst, P.V., McInnes, B.I.A., Patterson, D.B. and Evans, N.J. (2000): Performance capabilitie of the CSIRO U/Th-He thermochronology facility. In: Noble, W.P., O'Sullivan, P.B. and Brown, R.W. (eds.) 9th International Conference on Fission Dating and Thermochronology, Lorne. Geological Society of Australia Abstracts No. 58, 59.

Ducea, M.N., Valencia, V.A., Shoemaker, S., Reiners, P.W., DeCelles, P.G., Campa, M.F., Mora´n-Zenteno, D., and Ruiz, J. (2004): Rates of sediment recycling beneath the Acapulco trench: Constraints from (U-Th)//He thermochronology. Jour. of Geohys. Res. 109, B09404, doi:10.1029/2004JB003112.

Dunai, T.J. and Roselieb, K. (1996): Sorption and diffusion of helium in garnet: implications for volatile tracing and dating. Earth and Planet. Sci. Lett. 139, 411-421.

Evans, N., Wilson, N., Cline, J., McInnes, Brent. and Byrne, J. (2002): Developments in fluorite (U-Th)/ He thermochronology. In: Abstracts of the 12th annual V. M. Goldschmidt conference. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 66; 15A, 219.

Fanale, F.P. and Kulp J.L. (1962): The helium method and the age of Cornwall, Pennsylvania magnetite ore. Econ. Geol., 57, 735-746.

Farley, K.A. (2000): (U-Th)/He dating: a review of the technique and current applications. In: Noble, W.P., O'Sullivan, P.B. and Brown, R.W. (eds.) 9th International Conference on Fission Dating and Thermochronology, Lorne. Geological Society of Australia Abstracts No. 58, 77-79.

Farley, K.A., 2000. Helium diffusion from apatite: General behavior as illustrated by Durango fluorapatite. Jour. Geophys. Res. 105: 2903-2914.

Farley, K.A., 2000. Helium diffusion from apatite: General behavior as illustrated by Durango fluorapatite. Jour. Geophys. Res. 105: 2903-2914.

Farley, K.A., Reiners, P.W. and Nenow, V., 1999. An apparatus for measurement of noble gas diffusivities from minerals in vacuum. Analyt. Chem., 71: 2059-2061.

Farley, K.A., Wolf, R.A. and Silver, L.T. (1996): The effects oflong alpha-stopping distance on (U-Th)/He ages. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 60, 4223-4229.

Fitzgerald, P.G., Baldwin, S.L., Webb, L.E., and O'Sullivan, P.B. (2006): Interpretation of (U-Th)/He single grain ages from slowly cooled crustal terranes: A case study from the Transantarctic Mountains of southern Victoria Land. Chemical Geology, 225, 91- 120.

Foeken, J.P.T., Dunai, T.J., Bertotti, G. and Andriessen, P.A.M. (2003): Late Miocene to present exhumation in the Ligurian Alps (Southwest Alps) with evidence for accelerated denudation during the Messinian salinity crisis. Geology, 31/9, 797-800.

Fulda, C. and Lippolt, H. J. (2000): Diffusion coefficients of noble gases in natural minerals: An apparent experimental time dependence caused by domain size spectra. Math. Geol. 32, 31-47.

Hagedorn B. (1992) (U+Th)/He-, K/Ar- und Rb/Sr-Chronologie von Hämatit und Adular hydrothermaler Lagerstätten des Harzes. Dr. rer. nat. dissertation, Univ. Heidelberg.

Hagedorn B. and Lippolt H.J. (1994): Isotopische Alter von Zerrüttungszonen als Altersschranken der Freiamt-Sexau-Mineralisation (Mittlerer Schwarzwald) Abh. geol. Landesamt Baden-Württ. 14, 205 - 219.

Hautmann S., Brandner T. Lipplot H.J. and Lorenz (1999): K-Ar and (U+Th)-He chronometry of multistage alteration and mineralization in the Hartkoppe rhyolite, Spessart, Germany. 10th EUG J. Conf. Abs. 4, Cambridge Publications.

House, M. A., Farley, K. A. and Kohn, B. P. (1999): An empirical test of helium diffusion in apatite: borehole data from the Otway basin, Australia. Earth and Planet. Sci. Lett., 170, 463-474.

House, M. A., Wernicke, B.P., Farley, K. A. and Dumitru, T.A. (1997): Cenozoic thermal evolution of the central Sierra Nevada, California, from (U-Th)/He thermochronometry. Earth and Planet. Sci. Lett. 151, 167-179.

House, M.A., Farley, K.A. and Stockli, D. (2000): Helium chronometry of apatite and titanite using Nd-YAG laser heating. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 183, 365-368.

House, M.A., Wernicke, B.P. and Farley, K.A. (1997): Estimation of paleorelief using (U-Th)/ He thermochronology; an example from the Sierra Nevada, California. Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America. 29(6), 478.

House, M.A., Wernicke, B.P. and Farley, K.A. (1998): Dating topography of the Sierra Nevada, California, using apatite (U-Th)/ He ages. Nature. 396/6706, 66-69.

Juez-Larré, J. (2003): Post Late Paleozoic tectonothermal evolution of the northeastern margin of Iberia, assesses by fission-track and (U-Th)/He analysis. - A case history from the Catalan Coastal Ranges. Ph. D. Theses, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, 200 p.

Lippolt H.J. and Hautmann S. (1995): 40Ar/39Ar ages of Precambrian manganese ore minerals from Sweden, India and Morocco. Mineral. Depos. 30, 246-256.

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Lippolt H.J., Wernicke R.S. and Bähr R. (1995): Paragenetic specularite and adularia (Elba, Italy): concordant (U+Th)-He and K-Ar ages. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 132, 43 - 51.

Lippolt H.J., Wernicke R.S. and Boschmann W. (1993): 4He diffusion in specular hematite. Phys. Chem. Minerals 20, 415 - 418

Lippolt J., Brandner T.H. and Mankopf N.R. (1998): An attempt to determine formation ages of goethites and limonites by (U+Th)/4He dating. N. Jb. Miner. Mh. 1998 (11), 505 -528.

Lippolt, H.J. and Kirsch, H. (1994): Isotopic investigation of Post-Variscan plagioclase sericitation in the Schwarzwald gneiss massif. Chem. Erde 54, 179 - 198.

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Lippolt, H.J., Leitz, M. Wernicke, R.S. and Hagedorn, B. (1994): (Uranium+thorium)/helium dating of apatite: experience with samples from different geochemical environments. Chemical Geology, 112, 179-191.

Lippolt, H.J., Wernicke, R.S. and Bahr, R. (1995): Paragenetic specularite and adularia (Elba, Italy): concordant (U+Th)-He and K-Ar ages. Earth Planet. Sci Lett., 132, 43-51.

Mankopf N.R. and Lipplot H.J. (1997): 4He-geochemische Belege für ein permotriassisches Alter des Roteisenerzes des Quarz-Hämatit-Baryt-Ganges westlich Obersexau im Brettental/Mittelschwarzwald. Jh. Geol. Landesamt Baden-Württ., 37, 25 - 48.

McDowell, F.W., McIntosh, W.C. and Farley K.A. (2005): A precise 40Ar-39Ar reference age for the Durango apatite (U-Th)/He and fission-track dating standard. Chemical Geology, 214, 249- 263.

McInnes, B.I.A., Farley, K.A., Sillitoe, R.H. and Kohn, B. (1999): Application of apatite (U-Th)/He thermochronometry to the determination of the sense and amount of vertical fault displacement at the Chuquicamata porphyry copper deposit, Chile. Economic Geology, 94, 937-948.

Meesters, A.G.C.A. and Dunai T.J. (2002a): Solving the production-diffusion equation for finite diffusion domains of various shapes; Part I, Implications for low-temperature (U-Th)/ He thermochronology. Chemical Geology. 186/3-4, 333-344.

Meesters, A.G.C.A. and Dunai T.J. (2002b): Solving the production-diffusion equation for finite diffusion domains of various shapes; Part II, Application to cases with alpha -ejection and nonhomogeneous distribution of the source. Chemical Geology. 186/1-2, 57-73.

Mitchell, S.G. and Reiners, P.W. (2003): Influence of wildfires on apatite and zircon (U-Th)/ He ages. Geology, 31/12, 1025-1028.

Pettke, T., Frei, R., Kramers, J.D. and Villa, I.M. (1997): Isotope systematics in vein gold from Brusson, Val d'Ayas (NW Italy), 2.: (U+Th)/He and K/Ar in native Au and its fluis inclusions. Chemical Geology, 135, 173-187.

Pidgeon, R. T., Brandner, T. and Lippolt, H. J. (2004): Late Miocene (U+Th)-4He ages of ferruginous nodules from lateritic duricrust, Darling Range, Western Australia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 51, 901-909.

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Reiners, P.W. and Farley, K.A. (1999): Helium diffusion and (U-Th)/He thermochronometry of titanite. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 63/22, 3845-3859.

Reiners, P.W. and Farley, K.A. (2000): Helium diffusion and (U-Th)/He thermochronometry of zircon. In: Noble, W.P., O'Sullivan, P.B. and Brown, R.W. (eds.) 9th International Conference on Fission Dating and Thermochronology, Lorne. Geological Society of Australia Abstracts No. 58, 283-284.

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Spotila, J.A., Farley, K.A. and Sieh, K. (1998): Uplift and erosion of the San Bernardino Mountains associated with transpression along the San Andreas fault, California, as constrained by radiogenic helium termochronometry. Tectonics, 17/3, 360-378.

Stockli, D.F., Farley, K.A. and Dumitru, T.A. (2000): Intercalibration and integration of apatite (U-Th)/He and fission-track thermochronometers on an exhumed extensional fault block, White Mountains, eastern California, U.S.A. In: Noble, W.P., O'Sullivan, P.B. and Brown, R.W. (eds.) 9th International Conference on Fission Dating and Thermochronology, Lorne. Geological Society of Australia Abstracts No. 58, 305-307.

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Fission track literature

Andriessen, P.A.M. (1990): Anomalous fission track apatite ages of the Precambrian basement in the Hunnedalen region, south-western Norway. Nuclear Tracks and Radiation Measurements. 17; 3, Pages 285-291.

Arias, C., Bigazzi, G. and Bonadonna, F. P. (1981): Size corrections and plateau age in glass shards. Nuclear Tracks, 5, 129-136.

Arne, D. C., Green, P. F., Duddy, I. R., Gleadow, A. J. W, Lambert, I. B., and Lovering, J. F. (1989): Regional thermal history of the Lennard Shelf, Canning Basin, from apatite fission track analysis: Implications for the formation of Pb-Zn ore deposits. Australian Jour. of Earth Sci., 36, 495-513.

Bal, K. D., Lal, N., and Nagpaul, K. K. (1983): Zircon and sphene as fission track geochronometer and geothermometer: a reappraisal. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol., 83, 199-203.

Baldwin, S. L., Lister, G. S., Hill, E. J., Foster, D. A. and McDougall, I. (1993): Thermochronologic constraints on the tectonic evolution of active metamorphic core complexes, D'Entrecasteaux Island, Papua New Guinea. Tectonics, 12, 611-628.

Balestrieri, M-L., Abbate, E. and Bigazzi, G. (1996): Insights on the thermal evolution of the Ligurian Apennines (Italy) through fission-track analysis. Journal of the Geological Society of London. 153, Part 3; Pages 419-425

Bertagnolli, E., Keil, R., and Pahl, M. (1983): Thermal history and length distribution of fission tracks in apatite: Part I. Nuclear Tracks, 7, 163-177.

Bertotti, G., Seward, D., Wijbrans, J., ter Voorde, M. and Hurford, A.J. (1999): Crustal thermal regime prior to, during, and after rifting: A a geochronological and modeling study of the Mesozoic South Aline rifted margin. Tectonics, 18/2. 185-200.

Bhandari, N., Bhat, S. G., Lal, D., Rajagopalan, G., Tamhane, A. S. J, and Venkatavaradan, V. (1971): Fission fragment track in apatite: recordable track lengths. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 13, 191-199.

Bigazzi, G. (1967): Length of fission tracks and age of muscovite samples. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 3, 434-438.

Bigazzi, G. (1981): The problem of the decay constant lF of 238U. Nuclear Tracks, 5, 35-44.

Bigot-Cormier, F., Poupeau, G., Sosson, M., Stéphan, J.-F., Labrin, E., Ziad, N. and Schwarz, S. (1999): Fission track record and exhumation rates of the Argentera external crystalline massif (Western Alps, France-Italy). Memorie di Scienze Geologiche, 51. Padova.

Blythe, A. (1996): Preliminary note on Hf and U concentrations and fission-track annealing in zircon. On Track, 6, 3-4.

Bojar, A-V., Neubauer, F. and Fritz, H. (1998): Cretaceous to Cenozoic thermal evolution of the southwestern South Carpathians: evidence from fission-track thermochronology. Tectonophysics, 297, 229-249.

Brandon, M. T. (1992): Decomposition of fission-track grain-age distributions. Amer. J. of Science., 292, 535-564.

Brandon, M.T. and Vance, J.A. (1992): Tectonic evolution of the Cenozoic Olympic Subduction complex, Washington state, as deduced from fission track ages for detrital zircons. Am. Jor. of Science, 292, October, 1992, 565-636.

Brandon, M.T. (1996): Probability density plot for fission-track grain-age samples. Radiation Measurements. 26(5), 663-676.

Burchart, J. (1981): Evaluation of uncertainties in fission-track dating: some statistical and geochemical problems. Nucl. Tracks, 5. 87-92.

Burchart, J. (1972): Fission track age determinations of accessory apatite from the Tatra Mountains, Poland. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 15, 418-422.

Burtner, R.L., Nigrini, A., and Donelick, R.A., 1994, Thermochronology of Lower Cretaceous source rocks in the Idaho-Wyoming thrust belt. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 78, no. 10, pp. 1613-1636.

Carlson, W. D. (1990): Mechanism and kinetics of apatite fission track annealing. Am. Mineral., 75, 1120-1139.

Carlson, W.D., Donelick, R.A. and Ketcham, R.A. (1999): Variability of apatite fission-track annealing kinetics; I, Experimental results. American Mineralogist. 84(9), 1213-1223.

Carpéna, J. (1992): Fission track dating of zircon: zircons fron Mont Blanc granite (French-Italian Alps). Jour. of Geology, 100, 411-421.

Carpéna, J. (1985): Tectonic interpretation of an inverse gradient of zircon fission-track ages with respect to altitude: alpine thermal history of the Gran Paradiso basement. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol., 90, 74-82.

Carter, A. (1990): The thermal history and annealing effects in zircons from the Ordovician of North Wales. Nucl. Tracks Radiat. Meas., 17, 309-313.

Carter, A. (1999): Present status and future avenues of source region discrimination and characterization using fission track analysis. Sedimentary Geology, 124, 13-45.

Cerveny, P. F., Naeser, N. D., Zeitler, P. K., Naeser, C. W. and Johnson, N. M. (1988): History of uplift and relief of the Himalaya during the past 18 million years - evidence from fission-track ages of detrital zircons from sandstones of the Siwalik Group. In: Kleinspehn, K. L and Paola C. (eds), New perspectives in basin analysis. Springer-Verlag. New York, pp 43-61.

Copeland, P. and Peters, C. (1997): Dating detrital minerals: how many is enough? GSA Annual Meeting, Abstract with Programs. p. 420.

Cowan, G.A. and Adler, H. H. (1976): The variability of the natural abundance of 235U. Geochim, Cosmochim. Acta, 40, 1487-1490.

Crowley, K.D., Cameron, M. and Schaefer, R.L. (1991): Experimental studies of annealing of etched fission tracks in fluorapatite. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta. 55, 1449-1465.

Crowley KD. 1993a. Mechanisms and kinetics of apatite fission-track annealing-discussion. Am. Mineral. 78:210-12

Crowley KD. 1993b. Lenmodel: a forward model for calculating length distributions and fission-track ages in apatite. Comp. Geosci. 19:619-26

Crowley, K. D. (1985): Thermal significance of fission-track length distributions. Nuclear Tracks 10(3), 311-322.

Demény, A., and Dunkl, I. (1991): Preliminary zircon fission track results in the Kõszeg Penninic unit. Acta Min. Petr., Szeged, 32, 43-47.

Dodson, M. H. (1973): Closure temperature in cooling geochronological and petrological systems. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol., 40, 259-274.

Dokka, R. K., Mahaffie, M. J., and Snoke, A. W. (1986): Thermochronologic evidence of major tectonic denudation associated with detachment faulting, northern Ruby Mountains-East Humboldt Range, Nevada. Tectonics, 5, 995-1006.

Donelick, R. A., Roden, M. K., Mooers, J., Carpenter, B. S., and Miller, D. S. (1990): Etchable length reduction of induced fission track in apatite at room temperature (23°C): crystallographic orientation effects and "initial" mean lengths. Nuclear Tracks Radiat. Meas., 17, 261-266.

Donelick, R.A., Ketcham, R.A. and Carlson, W.D. (1999): Variability of apatite fission-track annealing kinetics; II, Crystallographic orientation effects. American Mineralogist. 84(9), 1224-1234.

Dumitru, T.A.; Duddy, I.R. and Green, P.F. (1994): Mesozoic-Cenozoic burial, uplift, and erosion history of the west-central Colorado Plateau. - Geology, Vol.22, Nr.6, 499-502.

Dumitru, T. A. (1988): Subnormal geothermal gradient in the Great Valley forearc basin, California, during Franciscan subduction: a fission track study. Tectonics, 7/6, 1201-1221.

Dumitru, T.A. (1993): A new computer-automated microscope stage system for fission-track analysis. Nucl. Tracks Radiat. Meas. 21. 575-580.

Dunkl, I. (1990): Fission track dating of tuffaceous Eocene formations of the North Bakony Mountains (Transdanubia, Hungary). Acta Geol. Hung., 33, 13-30.

Dunkl, I. (1992): Origin of Eocene-covered karst bauxites of the Transdanubian Central Range (Hungary): evidence for early Eocene volcanism. Eur. J. Mineral., 4, 581-595.

Dunkl, I. and Demény, A. (1997): Exhumation of the Rechnitz Window at the border of Eastern Alps and Pannonian basin during Neogene extension. Tectonophysics, 272, 197-211.

Dunkl, I., and Nagymarosy, A. (1992): A new tie-point candidate for the Paleogene timescale calibration: Fission track dating of tuff layers of Lower Oligocene Tard Clay (Hungary). N. Jb. Geol. Paläont. Abh., 186(3), 345-364.

Elias, J., 1998. The thermal history of the Ötztal-Stubai complex (Tyrol, Austria/Italy) in the light of the lateral extrusion model. Tübinger Geowissenschaftliche Arbeiten, Reihe A, 36, 172pp.

Fitzgerald, P. G., Fryxell, J. E., and Wernicke, B. P. (1991): Miocene crustal extension and uplift in southeastern Nevada: constraints from fission track analysis. Geology, 19, 1013-1016.

Fleischer, R. L., Price, P. B., and Walker, R. M. (1964): Fission-track ages of zircons. Journal of Geophysical Research, v.69, no. 22, 4885-4888.

Fleischer, R. L., Price, P. B., and Walker, R. M. (1965): Tracks of charged particles in solids. Science, 149, 383-393.

Fleischer, R. L., Price, P. B., and Walker, R. M. (1965): Effects of temperature, pressure and ionization of the formation and stability of fission tracks in minerals and glasses. J. Geophys. Res., 70, 1497-1502.

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