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 …

Long‐term landscape evolution: linking tectonics and surface processes

P Bishop - Earth Surface Processes and Landforms: the …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Research in landscape evolution over millions to tens of millions of years slowed
considerably in the mid‐20th century, when Davisian and other approaches to …

Apatite (U–Th)/He thermochronometry: methods and applications to problems in tectonic and surface processes

TA Ehlers, KA Farley - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2003 - Elsevier
In the last decade apatite (U–Th)/He thermochronometry has emerged as an important tool
for quantifying the cooling history of rocks as they pass through the upper 1–3 km of 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 …

Mesozoic and Cenozoic tectonic history of the central Chinese Tian Shan: Reactivated tectonic structures and active deformation

M Jolivet, S Dominguez, J Charreau, Y Chen, Y Li… - …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The present‐day topography of the Tian Shan range is considered to result from crustal
shortening related to the ongoing India‐Asia collision that started in the early Tertiary. In this …

Crustal thermal processes and the interpretation of thermochronometer data

TA Ehlers - Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry, 2005 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Many thermochronology studies focus on extracting the thermal history of a sample using
fission-track length distributions and track annealing models (eg, Ketcham 2005, and …

Application of low-temperature thermochronometry to extensional tectonic settings

DF Stockli - Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry, 2005 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Extension and associated tectonic exhumation have been described across a diverse
spectrum of geodynamic environments, ranging from lithospheric-scale extension along …

Cosmogenic nuclide evidence for low weathering and denudation in the wet, tropical highlands of Sri Lanka

F Von Blanckenburg, T Hewawasam… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Some of the lowest weathering and erosion rates in any mountain range in the world have
been measured using cosmogenic nuclides in the steep, humid, tropical highlands of Sri …

Regional analysis of bedrock stream long profiles: evaluation of Hack's SL form, and formulation and assessment of an alternative (the DS form)

G Goldrick, P Bishop - Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
The equilibrium form of the fluvial long profile has been used to elucidate a wide range of
aspects of landscape history including tectonic activity in tectonic collision zones, and in …

The chronology and tectonic style of landscape evolution along the elevated Atlantic continental margin of South Africa resolved by joint apatite fission track and (U‐Th …

M Wildman, R Brown, R Beucher, C Persano… - …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Atlantic‐type continental margins have long been considered “passive” tectonic settings
throughout the entire postrift phase. Recent studies question the long‐term stability of these …