Using thermochronology to understand orogenic erosion

PW Reiners, MT Brandon - Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci., 2006 - annualreviews.org
Erosion of orogenic mountain ranges exhumes deeply buried rocks and controls
weathering, climate, and sediment production and transport at a variety of scales. Erosion …

Needles in a haystack: Detrital zircon UPb ages and the maximum depositional age of modern global sediment

GR Sharman, MA Malkowski - Earth-Science Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
The practice of using the youngest detrital grains from a sedimentary deposit to constrain its
depositional age has grown rapidly over the past two decades. Researchers that use 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 …

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 …

Assessing the sediment factory: the role of single grain analysis

H von Eynatten, I Dunkl - Earth-Science Reviews, 2012 - Elsevier
Type and amount of sediment generation are intimately connected to tectonic and climatic
processes active at the earth's surface today as well as throughout the geologic past. Detrital …

Fission-track analysis of detrital zircon

M Bernet, JI Garver - Reviews in Mineralogy and …, 2005 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Zircon has become one of the most important minerals for studying sediment provenance
and the exhumation history of orogenic belts. The reason for this utility is that zircon is …

A zero-damage model for fission-track annealing in zircon

MK Rahn, MT Brandon, GE Batt, JI Garver - American Mineralogist, 2004 - degruyter.com
A zircon fission track-annealing model is calculated on the basis of annealing experiments
from the literature with induced tracks in α-decay event damage-free zircon samples …

U and Th contents and Th/U ratios of zircon in felsic and mafic magmatic rocks: Improved zircon‐melt distribution coefficients

W Xiang, WL Griffin, C Jie, H Pinyun… - Acta Geologica Sinica …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
High‐precision data on U and Th contents and Th/U ratios of zircon obtained using
secondary ion mass spectrometry analysis have been collected from the literature. Zircon in …

Erosion rates and orogenic-wedge kinematics in Taiwan inferred from fission-track thermochronometry

SD Willett, D Fisher, C Fuller, Y En-Chao… - …, 2003 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
New apatite and zircon fission-track ages and previously published thermochronometric
data are used to evaluate erosion rates and particle paths within the active Taiwan arc …

Identification and elimination of a matrix-induced systematic error in LA–ICP–MS 206Pb/238U dating of zircon

CM Allen, IH Campbell - Chemical Geology, 2012 - Elsevier
Link references in abstract. Black et al.(2004) identified a systematic difference between LA–
ICP–MS and TIMS measurements of 206Pb/238U in zircons, which they correlated with the …