Forward and inverse modeling of low-temperature thermochronometry data

RA Ketcham - Reviews in mineralogy and geochemistry, 2005 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The thermochronometric systems discussed in this volume broadly share three features:
parent isotopes, daughter products, and one or more time-dependent, temperature-sensitive …

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 …

(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 …

Accounting for long alpha-particle stopping 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 stopping …

(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 …

Exhumation, crustal deformation, and thermal structure of the Nepal Himalaya derived from the inversion of thermochronological and thermobarometric data and …

F Herman, P Copeland, JP Avouac… - Journal of …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Two end‐member kinematic models of crustal shortening across the Himalaya are currently
debated: one assumes localized thrusting along a single major thrust fault, the Main …

[HTML][HTML] Natural age dispersion arising from the analysis of broken crystals. Part I: Theoretical basis and implications for the apatite (U–Th)/He thermochronometer

RW Brown, R Beucher, S Roper, C Persano… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2013 - Elsevier
Over the last decade major progress has been made in developing both the theoretical and
practical aspects of apatite (U–Th)/He thermochronometry and it is now standard practice …

Interpretation of (U–Th)/He single grain ages from slowly cooled crustal terranes: a case study from the Transantarctic Mountains of southern Victoria Land

PG Fitzgerald, SL Baldwin, LE Webb, PB O'Sullivan - Chemical Geology, 2006 - Elsevier
Low temperature thermochronologic techniques (eg apatite fission track (AFT)
thermochronology and (U–Th)/He dating) constrain near-surface T–t paths and are often …

Progressive tectonic evolution from crustal shortening to mid-lower crustal expansion in the southeast Tibetan Plateau: A synthesis of structural and …

G Zhang, Y Tian, R Li, X Shen, Z Zhang, X Sun… - Earth-Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Existing end-member models sparked debates concerning plateau formation in the
southeast Tibetan Plateau through early-middle Cenozoic transpressional and shortening …

(U-Th)/He dating of phosphates: Apatite, monazite, and xenotime

KA Farley, DF Stockli - Reviews in mineralogy and …, 2002 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The common phosphate minerals, apatite Ca5 (PO4) 3 (F, OH, Cl), monazite (Ce, La, Th)
PO4, and xenotime YPO4, have found widespread use in geochronology because they …