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Reviewer Comments on gchron-2020-31
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
Date: 14-01-2021
Late mesozoic and cenozoic thermotectonic evolution along a transect from the north China craton through the Qinling orogen into the Yangtze craton, central China
Publisher: American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Date: 12-2006
DOI: 10.1029/2006TC001985
Uplift history and structure of the Transantarctic Mountains: new evidence from fission track dating of basement apatites in the Dry Valleys area, southern Victoria Land
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-1987
Post-orogenic evolution of the Mesozoic Micang Shan Foreland Basin system, central China
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 08-2012
Neogene evolution of the eastern margin of Gulf of California, Sonora, Mexico: Insights from low-temperature thermochronology
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2020
Reply to 'Comment by Guedes et al. on: Low temperature Phanerozoic history of the Northern Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia by Weber et al. [Tectonophysics 400 (2005), 127-151]'
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2006
Ages for Australia’s oldest rock paintings
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 22-02-2021
Development of geochronology in Victoria
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-2008
Peneplain formation in southern tibet predates the india-asia collision and plateau uplift: Comment
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Date: 09-2013
DOI: 10.1130/G33617C.1
Fission-track dating of pumice from the KBS Tuff, East Rudolf, Kenya
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 10-1976
DOI: 10.1038/263738A0
Geochronology in Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-2008
Phanerozoic Morphotectonic Evolution of the Zimbabwe Craton: Unexpected Outcomes From a Multiple Low‐Temperature Thermochronology Study
Publisher: American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Date: 10-2017
DOI: 10.1002/2017TC004703
AusGeochem: an Australian AuScope Geochemistry Network data platform for laboratories and their users
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
Date: 28-03-2022
DOI: 10.5194/EGUSPHERE-EGU22-13429
Abstract: & & Over the last two years, the Australian AuScope Geochemistry Network (AGN) has developed AusGeochem in collaboration with geoscience-data-solutions company Lithodat Pty Ltd. This open, cloud-based data platform (ausgeochem.auscope.org.au) serves as a geo-s le registry, with IGSN minting capability, a geochemical data repository and a data analysis tool. With guidance from experts in the field of geochemistry from a number of Australian institutions, and following international standards and best practices, various s le and geochemistry data models were developed that align with the FAIR data principles. AusGeochem is currently accepting data of SIMS U-Pb as well as of fission track and (U-Th-Sm)/He techniques with LA-ICPS-MS U-Pb and Lu-Hf, & sup& & /sup& Ar/& sup& & /sup& Ar data models under development. Special attention is paid to the implementation of streamlined workflows for AGN laboratories to facilitate ease of data upload from analytical sessions. Analytical results can then be shared with users through AusGeochem and where required can be kept fully confidential and under embargo for specified periods of time. Once the analytical data on in idual s les are finalized, the data can then be made more widely accessible, and where required can be combined into specific datasets that support publications.& &
Post Gondwana breakup evolution of the SE Australia rifted margin revisited
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 16-12-2019
DOI: 10.1111/TER.12441
Post break-up tectonic inversion across the southwestern cape of South Africa: New insights from apatite and zircon fission track thermochronometry
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2015
Thermochronologic evidence for timing of denudation and rate of crustal extension of the south mountains metamorphic core complex and sierra estrella, Arizona
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-1993
Constructing the Longmen Shan eastern Tibetan Plateau margin: Insights from low-temperature thermochronology
Publisher: American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Date: 06-2013
DOI: 10.1002/TECT.20043
Low temperature Phanerozoic history of the Northern Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2005
Thermal Annealing of Implanted <sup>252</sup>Cf Fission-1 Tracks in Monazite
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
Date: 28-09-2020
Abstract: Abstract. A series of isochronal heating experiments were performed to constrain monazite fission-track thermal annealing properties. 252Cf fission-tracks were implanted into monazite crystals from the Devonian Harcourt Granodiorite (Victoria, Australia) on polished surfaces oriented parallel and perpendicular to (100) prismatic faces. Tracks were annealed over 1, 10, 100 and 1000 hour schedules at temperatures between 30 °C and 400 °C. Track lengths were measured on captured digital image stacks, and then converted to calculated mean lengths of equivalent confined fission tracks which progressively decreased with increasing temperature and time. Annealing is anisotropic, with tracks on surfaces perpendicular to the crystallographic c-axis consistently annealing faster than those on surfaces parallel to c. To investigate how the mean track lengths decreased as a function of annealing time and temperature, one parallel and two fanning models were fitted to the empirical dataset. The temperature limits of the monazite partial annealing zone (MPAZ) were defined as length reductions to 0.95 (lowest) and 0.5 (highest) for this study. Extrapolation of the laboratory experiments to geological timescales indicates that for a heating duration of 107 years, estimated temperature ranges of the MPAZ are −44 to 101 °C for the parallel model and −71 to 143 °C (both ~ 6–21 °C, 2 standard errors) for the best fitting linear fanning model (T0 = ∞). If a monazite fission-track closure temperature is approximated as the mid-point of the MPAZ, these results, for tracks with similar mass and energy distributions to those involved in spontaneous fission of 238U, are consistent with previously estimated closure temperatures (calculated from substantially higher energy particles) of
Fission track data from the bathurst batholith: Evidence for rapid mid-cretaceous uplift and erosion within the eastern highlands of australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-1995
Cretaceous and Cenozoic cooling history across the ultrahigh pressure Tongbai-Dabie belt, central China, from apatite fission-track thermochronology
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2006
A thermochronological perspective on the morphotectonic evolution of the southeastern Tibetan Plateau
Publisher: American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Date: 2014
DOI: 10.1002/2013JB010429
The relationship between fission track length and track density in apatite
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 1984
Detrital zircon (U-Th)/He thermochronometry of the Mesozoic Daba Shan Foreland Basin, central China: Evidence for timing of post-orogenic denudation
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2012
Where did the Arizona‐Plano Go? Protracted Thinning Via Upper‐ to Lower‐Crustal Processes
Publisher: American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Date: 04-2022
DOI: 10.1029/2021JB023850
Abstract: Mesozoic‐Cenozoic subduction of the Farallon slab beneath North America generated a regionally extensive orogenic plateau in the southwestern US during the latest Cretaceous, similar to the modern Central Andean Plateau. In Nevada and southern Arizona, estimates from whole‐rock geochemistry suggest crustal thicknesses reached ∼60–55 km by the Late Cretaceous. Modern crustal thicknesses are ∼28 km, requiring significant Cenozoic crustal thinning. Here, we compare detailed low‐temperature thermochronology from the Catalina metamorphic core complex (MCC) to whole rock Sr/Y crustal thickness estimates across southern Arizona. We identify three periods of cooling. A minor cooling phase occurred prior to ∼40 Ma with limited evidence of denudation and ∼10 km of crustal thinning. Major cooling occurred during detachment faulting and MCC formation at 26–19 Ma, corresponding to ∼8 km of denudation and ∼8 km of crustal thinning. Finally, we document a cooling phase at 17–11 Ma related to Basin and Range extension that corresponds with ∼5 km of denudation and ∼9 km of crustal thinning. During the MCC and Basin and Range extension events, the amount of denudation recorded by low‐temperature thermochronology can be explained by corresponding decreases in the crustal thickness. However, the relatively limited exhumation prior to detachment faulting at ∼26 Ma recorded by thermochronology is insufficient to explain the magnitude of crustal thinning (∼10 km) observed in the whole rock crustal thickness record. Therefore, we suggest that crustal thinning of the Arizona‐plano was facilitated via ductile mid‐ to lower‐crustal flow, and limited upper‐crustal extension at 50–30 Ma prior to detachment faulting and Basin and Range extension.
Synchronous fluvial response to surface uplift in the eastern Tibetan Plateau: Implications for crustal dynamics
Publisher: American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Date: 12-01-2015
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL062383
Thermal evolution of rifted continental margins: new evidence from fission tracks in basement apatites from southeastern Australia
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-1986
The effect of weathering on fission track dating
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-1974
Composition dependent thermal annealing behaviour of ion tracks in apatite
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2016
Denudation history of Eastern Indian peninsula from apatite fission track analysis: Linking possible plume-related uplift and the sedimentary record
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2013
Lunar monazite: A late-stage (mesostasis) phase in mare basalt
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 1974
Fission‐track dating of lower Palaeozoic sandstones at Tatong, North Central Victoria
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-1977
Uplift history of the Transantarctic Mountains in the Dry Valleys area, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica, from apatite fission track ages
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-1984
Apatite (U-Th-Sm)/He thermochronology of rapidly cooled samples: The effect of He implantation
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2009
Thermal evolution of a sheared continental margin: Insights from the Ballenas transform in Baja California, Mexico
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2009
Thermotectonic evolution of the western margin of the Yilgarn craton, Western Australia: New insights from 40Ar/39Ar analysis of muscovite and biotite
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2015
The age and mode of formation of Gaussberg, Antarctica
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-1983
How the Harcuvar Mountains metamorphic core complex became cool: Evidence from apatite (U-Th)/He thermochronometry
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Date: 2004
DOI: 10.1130/G20936.1
Morphotectonic evolution of the central Kenya rift flanks: Implications for late Cenozoic environmental change in East Africa
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Date: 2007
DOI: 10.1130/G23108A.1
An early cretaceous phase of accelerated erosion on the south-western margin of Africa: Evidence from apatite fission track analysis and the offshore sedimentary record
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 1990
Fission track dating of zircon: Improved etching techniques
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-1976
A reappraisal of low-temperature thermochronology of the eastern Fennoscandia Shield and radiation-enhanced apatite fission-track annealing
Publisher: Geological Society of London
Date: 2009
DOI: 10.1144/SP324.15
Fission track age of the KBS Tuff and associated hominid remains in northern Kenya
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 03-1980
DOI: 10.1038/284225A0
Comment on: Experimental evidence for the pressure dependence of fission track annealing in apatite by A.S. Wendt et al. [Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 201 (2002) 593-607]
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2003
Etching of fission tracks in monazite: An experimental study
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 19-03-2019
DOI: 10.1111/TER.12382
Postorogenic rigid behavior of the eastern Songpan-Ganze terrane: Insights from low-temperature thermochronology and implications for intracontinental deformation in central Asia
Publisher: American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Date: 02-2014
DOI: 10.1002/2013GC004951
Comment on zircon and sphene as fission track geochronometer and geothermometer: a reappraisal by K.D. Bal, N. Lal, and K.K. Nagpaul
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 11-1985
DOI: 10.1007/BF00413354
Cenozoic denudation history of southern Hainan Island, South China Sea: Constraints from low temperature thermochronology
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2011
Bias in measurement of fission-track length distributions
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-1982
Scanning force microscopy of 129Iodine surface impact structures in muscovite, zircon and apatite as proxies for damage of simulated fission fragments in solids
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2013
Thermotectonic history of the Bassian Rise, Australia: implications for the breakup of eastern Gondwana along Australia's southeastern margins
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 26-08-0015
Thermal annealing of fission tracks in apatite 4. Quantitative modelling techniques and extension to geological timescales
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-1989
A natural long-term track annealing experiment for apatite
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-1981
An Upper Cretaceous paleo-aquifer system in the Eromanga Basin of the central Gawler Craton, South Australia: evidence from apatite fission track thermochronology
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-04-2016
Confined fission track lengths in apatite: a diagnostic tool for thermal history analysis
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 12-1986
DOI: 10.1007/BF00376334
Asymmetric extension associated with uplift and subsidence in the Transantarctic Mountains and Ross Embayment
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-1986
Etching of fission tracks in monazite: Further evidence from optical and focused ion beam scanning electron microscopy
Publisher: Mineralogical Society of America
Date: 06-2022
DOI: 10.2138/AM-2022-8002
Abstract: A series of experiments on monazites from Victoria, Australia, is presented to further understand their fission track etching properties. Using a 6 M HCl etchant at 90 °C, SEM images on crystal (100) pinacoid faces reveal well-etched rhombic spontaneous fission track openings. Average rhombic etch pit diameters Dpc and Dpb, parallel to the crystallographic c- and b-axes are 0.81 ± 0.20 µm and 0.73 ± 0.26 µm, respectively. An angular distribution experiment on (100) faces found that spontaneous fission tracks initially etch anisotropically, being preferentially revealed at an azimuth of 90° to the crystallographic c-axis up to ~60 min of etching. As etching continues, however, the distribution becomes progressively more uniform and is essentially isotropic by 90 min. Two experimental methods determined the rate at which the etchant penetrated along the lengths of implanted 252Cf fission tracks. This involved the application of a focused ion beam scanning electron microscope (FIB-SEM) to mill progressively into slightly etched monazite crystals followed by an etch-anneal-etch approach. Results indicate that at least the greater part of the etchable ranges of the latent fission tracks were penetrated by the 6 M HCl etchant within the first few minutes. Continued etching to 5 min indicates that track etching slows down toward the ends of the tracks, but the maximum ranges are estimated to be reached after 5–15 min, which represents the longest time the latent segments of the tracks are exposed to potential annealing at the etchant temperature. Taking into account that implanted 252Cf fission tracks in monazite anneal on average ~4% of their length at 90 °C after 1 h (Jones et al. 2019), suggests that a much shorter duration for exposure to this temperature causes less than ~1% of fission track length reduction during etching.
Late-stage evolution of the Chemehuevi and Sacramento detachment faults from apatite (U-Th)/He thermochronometry - Evidence for mid-Miocene accelerated slip
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Date: 05-2006
DOI: 10.1130/B25736.1
Denudation history of the Snowy Mountains: Constraints from apatite fission track thermochronology
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-1999
The Fish Canyon Tuff: A new look at an old low-temperature thermochronology standard
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2015
Computational tools for low-temperature thermochronometer interpretation
Publisher: Mineralogical Society of America
Date: 2005
Visualizing thermotectonic and denudation histories using apatite fission track thermochronology
Publisher: Mineralogical Society of America
Date: 2005
The interpretation of the isotopic ratio235U/238U in fission track dating
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 06-1983
DOI: 10.1007/BF01031296
Dating correlated microlayers in oxalate accretions from rock art shelters: New archives of paleoenvironments and human activity
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Date: 13-08-2021
Abstract: Radiocarbon dating of layered rocks may provide new insight into past climates and human activity in Australia’s Kimberley region.
Andy Gleadow Review
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
Date: 30-11-2020
Reply: Fission‐track dating of lower Palaeozoic sandstones at Tatong, north central Victoria
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 1979
New approaches in fission track geochronology as a tectonic tool: Examples from the transantarctic mountains
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 1990
The zircon ‘matrix effect’: evidence for an ablation rate control on the accuracy of U–Pb age determinations by LA-ICP-MS
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
Date: 2014
DOI: 10.1039/C4JA00008K
Abstract: This papers describes the source of systematic bias in U–Pb zircon dating by LA-ICP-MS.
Development of the Nyika Plateau, Malawi: A Long Lived Paleo‐Surface or a Contemporary Feature of the East African Rift?
Publisher: American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Date: 08-2022
DOI: 10.1029/2022GC010390
Abstract: Northern Malawi's Nyika Plateau is a 3,700 km 2 large, highly elevated (∼2,500 m) plateau located at the western margin of the Miocene‐Recent Malawi rift and the confluence of multiple Proterozoic orogenic belts. Neighboring asthenospheric upwelling in the Rungwe Volcanic Province, associated with the active East African Rift, has created similar topographic highs, leading some to speculate that the formation of Nyika could be related. Here, we present new low‐temperature data using apatite fission track, apatite (U‐Th‐Sm)/He and zircon (U‐Th)/He thermochronology to constrain the upper crustal thermal history of the Nyika region since the Devonian. The data suggest that Nyika was an isolated feature since at least the Permo‐Triassic, well before more recent rifting in Malawi, and may have developed as a horst between two large Karoo grabens, the Henga‐Ruhuhu and the North Rukuru to the southeast and northwest, respectively. Similarities between the thermal histories of Nyika and the currently separated Livingstone Plateau to the east allow for the possibility that these may have been connected in a contiguous highland prior to the formation of the intervening Neogene Malawi rift. Thermal history models for exposed Precambrian basement s les adjacent to Nyika, and once buried beneath the neighboring Karoo basins, indicate that up to 3.4 km of Permo‐Triassic section has since been eroded, with s les along the plateau not indicating burial of Karoo‐type sediment at this time. Most recent cooling histories suggest that the plateau surface continued to denude at varying degrees from the Cretaceous and reached near‐surface temperatures in the Late Paleogene‐Neogene.
40 Ar/ 39 Ar eruption ages of Turkana Basin tuffs: millennial-scale resolution constrains palaeoclimate proxy tuning models and hominin fossil ages
Publisher: Geological Society of London
Date: 15-06-2023
DOI: 10.1144/JGS2022-171
Abstract: The Turkana Basin in NW Kenya and SW Ethiopia hosts remarkable fossil-rich sediments that are central to our understanding of early hominin evolution, with interbedded volcanic tuffs providing critical time markers. However, the resolution of existing Early Pleistocene–Pliocene ages is limited to c. 20–60 kyr, inhibiting the evaluation of climatic and environmental drivers of evolution. We present high-precision, single-feldspar 40 Ar/ 39 Ar age and elemental data for four stratigraphically significant tuffs. These s les exhibit variably dispersed age distributions correlated with feldspar compositional trends, interpreted to indicate the partial retention of inherited 40 Ar related to crustal ‘cold storage’ and rapid melt infiltration preceding eruption. We evaluated various statistical methods and calculated astronomically calibrated Bayesian age estimates of 1879.1 ± 0.6 ka (±2.4 ka including external errors) for the Kay Behrensmeyer Site (KBS)/H2 Tuff, 1837.4 ± 0.9 ka (±2.4 ka) for the Malbe/H4 Tuff, 1357.5 ± 1.8 ka (±2.5 ka) for the Chari/L Tuff and 1315.4 ± 1.9 ka (±2.5 ka) for the Gele Tuff. Our results permit refined age constraints for important early Homo fossils, including the cranium KNM-ER1813 ( Homo habilis ) and various Homo erectus fossils. The KBS Tuff age also provides an important calibration locus for orbital tuning of palaeoclimate proxy records, revealing the complex interplays between palaeoclimate and geological drivers of sedimentation. Supplementary material : The supplementary tables and figures include previously published ages (Table S1), s le and irradiation information (Table S2), electron probe microanalytical results for tuff glasses (Table S3, Figs S2 and S3) and feldspars (Table S4), 40 Ar/ 39 Ar analytical data (Tables S5 and S6, Fig. S4), orbital tuning model parameters (Table S7), a summary of previous and revised hominin ages (Table S8) and a worked Bayesian estimation ex le (Fig. S1) and are available at 0.6084/m9.figshare.c.6602994
The AuScope Geochemistry Network and the AusGeochem geochemistry data platform
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
Date: 04-03-2021
DOI: 10.5194/EGUSPHERE-EGU21-14628
Abstract: & & The AuScope Geochemistry Network (AGN, www.auscope.org.au/agn) was established in 2019 in response to a community expressed desire for closer collaboration and coordination of activities between Australian geochemistry laboratories. Its aims include: i) promotion of capital and operational investments in new, advanced geochemical infrastructure (ii) supporting increased end user access to laboratory facilities and research data (iii) fostering collaboration and professional development via online tools, training courses and workshops. Over the last six months, the AGN has coordinated a monthly webinar series to engage the geoscience community, promote FAIR data practices and foster new collaborations. These webinars were recorded for future use and can be found at: hannel/UC0zzzc6_mrJEEdCS_G4HYgg.& & & & A primary goal of the AGN is to make the networks& #8217 laboratory geochemistry data, from around the globe, discoverable and accessible via development of an online data platform called AusGeochem (www.auscope.org.au/ausgeochem). Geochemical data models for SHRIMP U-Pb, Fission Track, U-Th/He, LA-ICP-MS U-Pb/Lu-Hf and Ar-Ar are being developed using international best practice and are informed by expert advisory groups consisting of members from various institutes and laboratories within Australia. AusGeochem is being designed to provide an online data service for analytical laboratories and researchers where s le and analytical data can be uploaded (privately) for processing, synthesis and secure dissemination to collaborators. Researcher data can be retained in a private space but studied within the context of other publicly available data. Researchers can also generate unique international geo s le numbers (IGSNs) for their s les via a build in link to the Australian Research Data Commons IGSN registry.& & & & & AusGeochem supports FAIR data practices by providing researchers with the ability to include links to their AusGeochem registered data in research publications, providing a potential opportunity for AusGeochem to become a trusted data repository.& &
Fission-track dating methods: What are the real alternatives?
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-1981
K–Ar age estimate for the KBS Tuff, East Turkana, Kenya
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 03-1980
DOI: 10.1038/284230A0
Fission track age of apatite from the jurassic and cretaceous granites in South Korea and its tectonic implications
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 1987
Fission-track annealing in apatite: Track length measurements and the form of the Arrhenius plot
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 1985
Influence of Rift Superposition on Lithospheric Response to East African Rift System Extension: Lapur Range, Turkana, Kenya
Publisher: American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Date: 2018
DOI: 10.1002/2017TC004575
Thermal history of the Krishna-Godavari basin, India: Constraints from apatite fission track thermochronology and organic maturity data
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2013
Inter-analyst comparison and reproducibility of apatite fission track analysis
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 11-09-2021
Inter-analyst comparison and reproducibility of apatite fission track analysis
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-09-2021
Micro‐stromatolitic laminations and the origins of engraved, oxalate‐rich accretions from Australian rock art shelters
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 07-09-2021
DOI: 10.1002/GEA.21882
Abstract: Distinctive, dark‐coloured, glaze‐like mineral accretions are common on low‐angle surfaces in sandstone rock shelters in the Kimberley region of north‐western Australia, where they provide an attractive medium for the production of deep engravings, and occasionally, are associated with painted rock art. These accretions form within the shelter dripline and are similar to those reported from other sites around the world, where they have been used for radiocarbon dating of associated rock art. This study uses extensive field observations and mineralogical analysis of 77 such oxalate‐rich accretions collected at 41 different sites across a wide area of the north Kimberley region. The mineralogy of these accretions is dominated by well‐crystallised calcium oxalate and sulphate minerals, most commonly whewellite and gypsum, with significant occurrences of phosphates in some s les. The accretions are typically several millimetres thick and characterised by distinctive internal laminations that show regular stacked undulations, giving a stromatolitic appearance under the microscope. Together with other apparently microbial features observed under the scanning electron microscope, these features provide strong support for a microbiological origin for these oxalate‐rich accretions. The well‐crystallised nature of the oxalates and the preservation of fine laminar features within the accretions supports their use for radiocarbon dating.
Fission-track geochronology, tectonics and structure of the transantarctic mountains in Northern Victoria land, antarctica
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-1988
Shaping the Australian crust over the last 300 million years: Insights from fission track thermotectonic imaging and denudation studies of key terranes
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-2002
Regional thermal history of the Lennard shelf, Canning Basin, from apatite fission track analysis: Implications for the formation of Pb‐Zn ore deposits
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-1989
New developments in the radiocarbon dating of mud wasp nests
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2019
Denudational and thermal history of the Early Cretaceous Brandberg and Okenyenya igneous complexes on Namibia's Atlantic passive margin
Publisher: American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Date: 06-2005
DOI: 10.1029/2004TC001688
Neogene structural evolution of the Sierra San Felipe, Baja California: Evidence for proto-gulf transtension in the Gulf Extensional Province?
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2010
Constraints on the vertical motion of eastern Australia during the Mesozoic
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-1994
DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-2117.1994.TB00077.X
Abstract: Backstripping and apatite fission track analysis are used to constrain the Mesozoic vertical motion of the eastern Australian basins (Eromanga, Surat and Clarence‐Moreton). The backstripping results show that subsidence was linear during the Jurassic, and the rate of subsidence shows an overall increase (by a factor of about 2) towards the eastern margin. The Cretaceous section is well preserved only in the Eromanga Basin, and the backstripping results show that the apparent subsidence rate increased by a factor of 5–10 during the Early Cretaceous. The sediments show a lithological cyclicity which is the result of a variable influx of volcanogenic detritus from the convergent eastern margin. The rapid Cretaceous subsidence corresponds to a large influx of this volcanogenic material, resulting in progressively non‐marine deposition at a time when global sea‐level was rising. The apatite fission track data suggest that the Cretaceous section was probably deposited over the Surat and Clarence‐Moreton Basins but has since been eroded off. The exhumation‐induced cooling may have commenced earlier in the eastern region (Late Cretaceous to Early Tertiary) and slightly later to the west (Early to Middle Tertiary). Furthermore, the inferred total amount of removed section is greater (˜2.5 km) in the east than in the west ( km). The present‐day thermal regime in the Eromanga Basin is considered to be a relatively recent ( Ma) phenomenon, as non‐zero fission track ages are maintained in sediments currently at temperatures of ˜120°C. Overall, the regional backstripping and apatite fission track results support a model of platform tilting, This is related to the inferred subduction along a convergent margin on eastern Australia during the Jurassic to Early Cretaceous. The cessation of subduction, and subsequent opening of the Tasman Sea in the Late Cretaceous, was accompanied by uplift on the eastern margin and the termination of widespread deposition on the platform.
Combined apatite fission track and (U-Th)/He thermochronometry in a slowly cooled terrane: Results from a 3440-m-deep drill hole in the southern Canadian Shield
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2004
Thermal annealing of unetched fission tracks in apatite
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2012
Episodic Late Palaeozoic to Cenozoic denudation of the southeastern highlands of Australia: Evidence from the Bogong High Plains, Victoria
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-1999
Reviewers Comment on gchron-2020-31
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
Date: 14-01-2021
Reviewer Comments on the “Technical Note: TrackFlow, a new versatile microscope system for fission track analysis”
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
Date: 13-12-2019
Thermochronometric data on the development of the basement peneplain in the Sierras Pampeanas, Argentina
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 1989
Fission track lengths in the apatite annealing zone and the interpretation of mixed ages
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-1986
The effect of long-term low-temperature exposure on apatite fission track stability: A natural annealing experiment in the deep ocean
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2007
Low-temperature thermochronology of northern Baja California, Mexico: Decoupled slip-exhumation gradients and delayed onset of oblique rifting across the Gulf of California
Publisher: American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Date: 26-05-2011
DOI: 10.1029/2009TC002649
The AuScope Geochemistry Network: Facilitating Better Organisation, Coordination and Ability to Share Data Produced by Australian Geochemistry Laboratories
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
Date: 28-03-2022
DOI: 10.5194/EGUSPHERE-EGU22-12874
Abstract: & & One of the greatest challenges in the global geochemistry community is to aggregate and make the large amounts of geochemical data generated by laboratories FAIR [Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable] and publicly available the large amounts of data generated in laboratories. Standardisation and data organisation has often been an in idual or voluntary/uncoordinated effort and/or motivated by the likelihood of immediate/near-future publication. Along with the technical challenges of getting laboratory data into a well-structured relational database and linked to s les& #8217 metadata, societal and cultural issues are often present around the standardisation and accessibility of data reporting (e.g. equipment manufacturer, funding body proprietary data outputs, data reduction software accessibility and requirements/& #8220 data ownership& #8221 of the users/scientists).& & & & & & & & & In response to a national expression of a need to address the challenges outlined above and for better organisation and coordination of Australian geochemistry laboratories and data, AuScope funded the AuScope Geochemistry Network (AGN) in 2019. The AGN comprises a team of researchers, data-scientists, and technical staff from three universities across Australia Curtin University, the University of Melbourne, and Macquarie University, tasked in coordinating and strategizing the best approach to:& & & ul& & li& Unite the erse Australian geochemistry community.& /li& & li& Promote national capability (existing geochemical capability).& /li& & li& Promote investment in infrastructure (new, advanced geochemical infrastructure).& /li& & li& Support increased end user access to laboratory facilities.& /li& & li& Support professional development via online tools, training courses and workshops.& /li& & li& Preserving legacy data sets& /li& & /ul& & & & & & & & Over the last two years the AGN has worked to organise the geochemistry community and provide solutions to the integration and adoption of international best practices for data management. With the & #8216 end in mind& #8217 the AGN and collaborator Lithodat have developed the AusGeochem platform, a unique research data platform that services laboratory needs, bridges the gap between s le metadata and analytical data as well as strengthens the user-laboratory connection. To establish data reporting tables that fit the community& #8217 s need, yet facilitate FAIR data practices and integrating international best practices for handling geochemistry data, the AGN led and coordinated Expert Advisory Groups composed of geochemical specialists from a number of Australian institutions. Along with the AusGeochem platform that allows laboratories to upload, archive, disseminate and publish their datasets the AGN has built LabFinder, a web application tool that helps geoscience users find and access the right laboratory and analytical technique to solve their research questions. LabFinder aims to continue to support end user access to laboratory facilities leading to the improvement in the capability and capacity of geochemistry laboratories on a national scale. In the coming two years AGN will continue to build upon these accomplishments by expanding the AGN data partnerships through the on boarding of institutions hosting major geochemistry laboratories, further facilitating collaborations between Australian geochemistry laboratories.& &
Geometry factor for external detectors in fission track dating
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-1977
Calibration of fission track dating parameters
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 1977
Comparison through fission-track analysis of portions of Australia and Antarctica adjacent prior to continental drift
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 1990
Standardization of fission-track data reports
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-1979
The genesis of garnet and cordierite in acid volcanic rocks: Evidence from the Cerberean Cauldron, Central Victoria, Australia
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 1974
DOI: 10.1007/BF00371133
Fission track geochronology of King Island, Bass Strait, Australia: Relationship to continental rifting
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 1978
Eocene to Miocene Out‐of‐Sequence Deformation in the Eastern Tibetan Plateau: Insights From Shortening Structures in the Sichuan Basin
Publisher: American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Date: 02-2018
DOI: 10.1002/2017JB015049
Apatite fission-track age patterns in antarctica: Comparison with Southern Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 1979
Fission track thermotectonic imaging of the Australian continent
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2002
A new approach to crystallographic orientation measurement for apatite fission track analysis: Effects of crystal morphology and implications for automation
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2009
Coincidence mapping - A key strategy for the automatic counting of fission tracks in natural minerals
Publisher: Geological Society of London
Date: 2009
DOI: 10.1144/SP324.2
Thermal history of granitic rocks from western Victoria: A fission‐track dating study
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-1978
The age of gabbro at The Crescent, New South Wales
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-1987
Middle tertiary hydrothermal activity and uplift of the northern flinders ranges, South Australia: Insights from apatite fission‐track thermochronology
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-1994
Thermal annealing of implanted <sup>252</sup>Cf fission tracks in monazite
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
Date: 16-02-2021
Abstract: Abstract. A series of isochronal heating experiments were performed to constrain monazite fission track thermal annealing properties. The 252Cf fission tracks were implanted into monazite crystals from the Devonian Harcourt granodiorite (Victoria, Australia) on polished surfaces oriented parallel to (100) pinacoidal faces and perpendicular to the crystallographic c axis. Tracks were annealed over 1, 10, 100 and 1000 h schedules at temperatures between 30 and 400 ∘C. Track lengths were measured on captured digital image stacks and then converted to calculated mean lengths of equivalent confined fission tracks that progressively decreased with increasing temperature and time. Annealing is anisotropic, with tracks on surfaces perpendicular to the crystallographic c axis consistently annealing faster than those parallel to the (100) face. To investigate how the mean track lengths decreased as a function of annealing time and temperature, one parallel and two fanning models were fitted to the empirical dataset. The temperature limits of the monazite partial annealing zone (MPAZ) were defined as length reductions to 0.95 (lowest) and 0.5 (highest) for this study. Extrapolation of the laboratory experiments to geological timescales indicates that for a heating duration of 107 years, estimated temperature ranges of the MPAZ are −44 to 101 ∘C for the parallel model and −71 to 143 ∘C (both ±6–21 ∘C, 2 standard errors) for the best-fitting linear fanning model (T0=∞). If a monazite fission track closure temperature is approximated as the midpoint of the MPAZ, these results, for tracks with similar mass and energy distributions to those involved in spontaneous fission of 238U, are consistent with previously estimated closure temperatures (calculated from substantially higher energy particles) of 50 ∘C and perhaps not much higher than ambient surface temperatures. Based on our findings we estimate that this closure temperature (Tc) for fission tracks in monazite ranges between ∼ 45 and 25 ∘C over geological timescales of 106–107 years, making this system potentially useful as an ultra-low-temperature thermochronometer.
Tectonothermal Evolution of the Broadly Rifted Zone, Ethiopian Rift
Publisher: American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Date: 03-2019
DOI: 10.1029/2018TC005210
Uranium—Potassium relationship and apatite fission-track ages for a differentiated leucitite suite from New South Wales (Australia)
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 1978
Stratigraphy and 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of the Santa Rosa basin, Baja California: Dynamic evolution of a constrictional rift basin during oblique extension in the Gulf of California
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 20-03-2013
DOI: 10.1111/BRE.12004
Chemical discrimination of petrographically defined clast groups in Apollo 14 and 15 lunar breccias
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-1974
Intracontinental deformation in southern Africa during the Late Cretaceous
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2014
Fission track dating, thermal histories and tectonics of igneous intrusions in East Greenland
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 11-1979
DOI: 10.1007/BF00371880
12,000-Year-old Aboriginal rock art from the Kimberley region, Western Australia
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Date: 07-02-2020
Abstract: Radiocarbon-dated mud wasp nests provide a terminal Pleistocene age estimate for an Australian Aboriginal rock art style.
The significance of the partial annealing zone in apatite fission-track analysis: Projected track length measurements and uplift chronology of the transantarctic mountains
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-1989
Constraints on the current rate of deformation and surface uplift of the Australian continent from a new seismic database and low-T thermochronological data
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2900
Anisotropic and variable track etching characteristics in natural sphenes
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-1978
The morphotectonic evolution of rift-margin mountains in central Kenya: Constraints from apatite fission-track thermochronology
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-1992
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