FT 2008 - The 11th International Conference on Thermochronometry
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Technical program for FT2008, Anchorage Alaska (15-19 September 2008)............... P1-P7
Thermal history and exhumation of the Polish Western Outer Carpathians: evidence from combined apatite fission track and illite - smectite data
Anczkiewicz, A.A & Świerczewska, A................................................................................................. 1
Thermal history and uplift process of the Shimanto Belt, southwest Japan, analyzed by fission-track length distributions of apatite
Arata, K. & Hasebe, N. ..................................................................................................................... .. 5
The western Chugach core: Locus of subduction-related exhumation?
Armstrong, P.A., Haeussler, P., Sendziak, K., & Arkle, J. ............................................................. 8
Low temperature thermochronologic constraints on the exhumation of high pressure and ultrahigh pressure metamorphic rocks to the Earth’s surface
Baldwin, S.L., Fitzgerald, P.G., Webb, L.E. & Little, T.A. ............................................................. 11
Apatite fission-track and (U-Th)/He thermochronometry applied to constrain the exhumation history and late tectonogenic stages of Peloritani Mountains, northern Sicily, Italy.
Balestrieri, M.L., Olivetti, V., Stuart, F.M., Vignaroli, G., Bigazzi, G. & Faccenna, C. ................. 13
Additional evidences for surface uplift of the Atlas Mountains and the surrounding peripheral plateaux: preliminary apatite fission track data on the Western Moroccan Meseta (coastal Paleozoic basement)
Barbero, L., Azdimousa, A., Jabaloy, A., del Río, P., Asebriy, L., Vázquez, M., Booth-Rea, G. & González-Lodeiro, F. ................. 16
The Rwenzori Mountains of Uganda, a high mountain range in a rift environment – thermochronological evidence
Bauer, F.U., Glasmacher, U.A., Förster, A., Reiners, P., Braun, J., Nagudi, B., Schumann, A. & Bechstaedt, T. ................. 19
Eastern Alaska Range thermochronological constraints on the timing of Tanana basin development
Benowitz, J.A. & Layer, P.W. ................. 22
Spatial and temporal patterns of exhumation across the Venezuelan Andes from in-situ and detrital apatite fission-track analysis: Implications for Cenozoic tectonics
Bermúdez-Cella, M., Van der Beek, P. & Bernet, M. ................. 25
Hot rocks in the Hartford basin: Thermochronology in rift basin analysis
Bernet, M. ................. 28
Exhumation and uplift of the Shillong plateau and its influence on the eastern Himalayas: New constraints from apatite and zircon (U-Th-[Sm])/He and apatite fission track analyses
Biswas, S., Coutand, I., Grujic, D., Hager, C., Stöckli, D. & Grasemann B. ................. 31
Low-temperature thermal history of the San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth
Blythe, A., & Bürgmann, R. ................. 34
Apatite fission track and (U-Th)/He thermochronology on the Ardennes and Bohemian Massifs: towards a better paleogeography of Western Europe during Cretaceous
Bour, I., Barbarand, J., Pagel, M., Gautheron, C., Yans, J., Gunnell, Y. ................. 36
Synthesis of Alaskan detrital zircon data (120+ samples, 10,000+ zircons)
Bradley, D.C., Bleick, H.A., Cervelli, P.F. ................. 38
What is the link between the subcrustal lithosphere and dead bats? Answer: low-temperature thermochronometry
Brichau, S., Carter, A., Gunnell, Y., Calvet, M. & Aguilar, J.-P. ................. 41
Shallow subduction erosion at a retreating convergent margin – the thermochronometric record of the “Uppermost Unit” on Crete, Greece
Brix, M.R., Thomson, S.N. & Stöckhert B. ................. 42
Exhumation of the southern Puna Plateau margin and Eastern Cordillera of NW Argentina revealed through apatite fission track and (U-Th)/He thermochronology
Bywater, S., Trimble, J., Carrapa, B. & Stockli, D.F. ................. 43
Apatite triple dating and white mica 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology of syn-tectonic detritus in the Central Andes: a multi-phase tectono-thermal history
Carrapa, B., Decelles, P.G., Reiners, P.W., Gehrels, G, Sudo, M. & Biswas, A. ................. 44
Did India hit and run, or give the Burma-Sumatra margin the cold shoulder?
Carter, A. & Bhandopadhyay, P. . ................. 45
Climatic, tectonic and geodynamic forcing on the European Alps at 5-4 Ma: An apatite fission-track study in the North Alpine Foreland Basin
Cederbom, C.E., Schlunegger, F., van der Beek, P., Sinclair, H.D. & Oncken, O.................. 46
Tectono-thermal History of the Micang-Hannan Complex, South of the Qinling Orogen, West China: Evidence from Fission Track Analyses and (U-Th)/He Dating
Chang, Y., Zhou, Z., Xu, C., Zhang, P. & Reiners, P.W.................. 48
Thermo-tectonic evolution of the Ukrainian Donbas Foldbelt and Azov Massif: evidence from fission track and (U-Th)/He data
Danišík, M., Sachsenhofer, R.F., Privalov, V.A., Panova, E.A., Frisch, W. & Spiegel, C.................. 51
Denudation in southern Malawi and northern Mozambique: indications of the long-term tectonic segmentation of East Africa during the Gondwana break-up
Daszinnies, M.C., Emmel, B., Jacobs, J., Grantham, G. & Thomas, R. J.................. 52
Thermochronology of the Kyrgyz Tien Shan reveals the timing of punctuated Late Triassic to Late Cretaceous Tethyian subduction and Tibetan collisions and of Cenozoic mountain building as response to India-Eurasia convergence
De Grave. J., Buslov, M.M., Glorie, S., Stockli, D.F., Van den haute, P., Batalev, V.Y., Kislitsyn, R.V. & McWilliams, M.O. ................. 54
Cenozoic cooling history of the Puna Plateau and Eastern Cordillera, NW-Argentina: Constraints from apatite fission-track geochronology and (U-Th)/He analyses
Deeken, A., Hourigan, J.K., Sobel, E. & Strecker, M.................. 58
Seeing subtleties: the importance of chemical composition in AFT analysis of old and complex landscapes
Dobson, K.J., Brown, R.W. & Coventry, A.R.................. 59
Landscape Evolution of a Cretaceous Alkaline Massif on the Southeast of Brazil
Doranti, C., Hackspacher, P.C., Glasmacher, U.A., Franco, A.O.B., de Godoy, D.F., Ribeiro, M.C.S. & Hadler Neto, J.C. ................. 61
Variable helium diffusion behavior in apatite: A case study from the northern San Andreas transform plate boundary
Dumitru, T.A., & Unruh, J.R. . ................. 63
Apatite single grain (U-Th)/He data from Heimefrontfjella, record of flexural response to glacial load?
Emmel, B., Jacobs, J., Crowhurst, P. & Daszinnies, M.C.................. 66
Detrital zircon thermochronology in the Chugach–St. Elias orogen, SE-Alaska
Enkelmann, E., Garver, J.I. & Pavlis, T.L. ................. 68
An assessment of the feasibility of monazite as a fission-track thermochronometer
Fayon, A.K.. ................. 71
Phanerozoic geothermal gradient variations and epeirogeny in the southwestern Canadian shield (AECL’s Underground Research Laboratory, Manitoba)
Feinstein, S., Kohn, B., Osadetz, K., Everitt, R. & O’Sullivan, P. ................. 73
Along-strike variation of the uplift and exhumation history of the Pyrenean orogen: Constraining the evolution of an intraplate orogen
Fitzgerald, P.G., Baldwin, S.L., Metcalf, J.R., Muñoz, J-A, Schwabe, E. ................. 74
The South Virgin-White Hills detachment fault system of SE Nevada and NW Arizona: Applying apatite fission track thermochronology to constrain the tectonic evolution of a major continental detachment fault
Fitzgerald, P.G., Duebendorfer, Faulds, E.M., & O'Sullivan, P. ................. 77
Exhumation of the Patagonian Cordillera: Insights from detrital thermochronologic analysis of the Magallanes Basin, southern Chile
Fosdick, J.C., Bernhardt, A., Romans, B.W., Fildani, A. & Graham, S.A. . ................. 80
Orogenic Strain Rate from Thermochronology
Foster, D.A. & Gray, D.R. . ................. 83
Post-Cretaceous long-term evolution of the western South-Altantic Margin – Brazil: post-rift exhumation from apatite fission-track thermochronology
Franco, A.O.B., Hackspacher, P.C., Glasmacher, U.A., Hadler Neto, J.C. & Saad, A.R. ................. 84
Trans-dimensional Thermal History Modelling
Gallagher, K.................. 86
Detrital fission-track ages from the Upper Cambrian Potsdam Formation, New York: implications for the low-temperature thermal history of the Grenville terrane
Garver, J.I. and Montario, M.J. ................. 87
Alpha damage annealing effects on apatite (U-Th)/He thermochronology
Gautheron, C., Tassan-Got, L., Barbarand, J. & Pagel, M. ................. 90
Quantifying Eocene and Miocene Extension in the Ruby-East Humbolt Metamorphic Core Complex, Northeastern Nevada
Gifford, J.N., Foster, D.A., Howard, K.A., Newman, V. & Donelick, R. ................. 92
Implications of new apatite and zircon fission-track thermochronology for Mesozoic and Tertiary basin margin exhumation, upper Alaska Peninsula
Gillis, R.J, Reifenstuhl R.R., Decker, P.L. ................. 95
The Caucasus are a fast exhuming orogen
Glasmacher, U.A., Kissner, T., Kraft, O., Mosar, J., Kangarli, T., Bochud, M. & Rast, A.................. 96
Durango, an old - new standard in fission-track and (U-Th-Sm)/He thermochronology
Glasmacher, U.A., Wipf, M., Stoeckli, D., Corona, R., Balcázar, M. & Miletich, R. ................. 97
Image analysis and the automated counting of fission tracks in minerals
Gleadow, A., Gleadow, S., Kohn, B. & Krochmal, M. ................. 99
Automation of grain selection for fission track analysis in minerals
Gleadow, A.J.W., Wilson, C.J.L. & Gleadow, S.J. ................. 101
Tectonic reactivation along inherited faults revealed by AFT thermochronology: a case study in the Central Kyrgyz Tien Shan
Glorie, S., De Grave, J., Buslov, M.M., Van den haute, P., Batalev, V. & Elburg, M.A. ................. 103
Differential exhumation of the external crystalline massifs in the Western and Central Alps: constraints from the Mont Blanc and Gotthard tunnels
Glotzbach, C., Reinecker, J., Danišík, M., Rahn, M., Frisch, W. & Spiegel, C. ................. 107
Microprobe Assisted Zoned Alpha Corrections in Zircon (U-Th)/He Chronology
Gombosi, D.J., Barbeau, Jr., D.L., Hourigan, J.K., & Zhao, D.................. 110
Low-temperature thermochronology, exhumation, and long-term landscape morphogenesis in the western Cantabrian Mountains, NW Spain
Grobe, R., Alvarez-Marrón, J., Glasmacher, U. A. & Menéndez-Duarte, R.................. 111
Tectonic reactivation of the South-Atlantic margin, Southeastern Brazil, during the Paleogene time: apatite fission track analysis and (U-Th)/He systematics
Hackspacher, P.C., Saad, A.R., Ribeiro, M.C.S., Godoy, D.F. & Hadler Neto, J.C. ................. 114
An overview of the neotectonics of interior central Alaska and the record of exhumation
Haeussler, P., Armstrong, P., Benowitz, J., Fitzgerald, P., Layer, P., Perry, S., O’Sullivan, P., Spotila, J. & Till, A. ................. 117
FT dating results using LA-ICP-MS: Age plus something
Hasebe, N., Hasebe, A. & Arai, S. ................. 119
Fission-track thermochronology, vertical kinematics, and geomorphological development along the western prolongation of the North Anatolian Fault Zone
Hejl, E., Parlak, O., Vavelidis, M. & Weingartner, H. ................. 120
Annealing rate of fission tracks in samples with old AFT ages
Hendriks, B.W.H., Donelick, R.A. & Redfield, T.F. ................. 123
Exhumation history of the central Colorado Plateau in the Canyonlands to Book Cliffs region, Utah
Hoffman, M.K., Stockli, D.F., Kelley, S.A. & Szymanski, E. ................. 124
Low-T chronological studies of detrital minerals along the middle reach of Yarlung-Tsangpo, Southern Tibet
Shao-Yi Huang, Yue-Gau Chen, Ling-Ho Chung, Yu-Nung Lin, Tsung-Kwei Liu, Shujun Zhao, Jingwei Liu, Gong-ming Yin & Zhongquan Cao ................. 127
Inter-laboratory comparison of fission-track length measurements in apatite
Hurford, T., Carter, A. & Ketcham, R. ................. 128
Reanalysis and reinterpretation of apatite fission track data from the central Mackenzie Valley, NWT, northern Canada: Implications for kinetic parameter determination and thermal modeling
Issler, D.R. & Grist, A.M. ................. 130
Counting fission tracks in volcanic glass using image processing
Ito, K. & Hasebe, N. ................. 133
The "other track" and its possible tie-ins with experiments and geological data
Jonckheere, R.C., Enkelmann, E., Stübner, K., Weise, C., Wauschkuhn, B. & Ratschbacher, L. ................. 135
HELIOS: a new laser system for extraction and analysis of noble gases from minerals Applications for (U-Th-Sm)/He dating
Juez-Larré, J., Postma, O., van Duijn, E.J., Voorhorst, B. & Andriessen, P.A.M. ................. 138
Observations on the reproducibility of fission-track length data and its effects, and ruminations on a calibration
Ketcham, R.A., Donelick, R.A., Balestrieri, M-L. & Zattin, M. ................. 139
Low temperature thermochronology in ancient terranes: a progress report
Kohn, B., Gleadow, A., Frei, S. & Kohlmann, F. ................. 142
Rubbing Out Apatite Helium Age-Spread in Fast-Cooled Rocks
Kohn, B., Spiegel, C., Phillips, D. & Gleadow, A. ................. 144
Reliability of confined fission-track length measurement with the new Autoscan automated 3-axis high precision stage
Krochmal, M., Wipf, M., Bauer, F., Glasmacher, U.A., Grobe, R., Sehrt, M. & Dowsey, G. ................. 145
Thermochronologic and Geomorphic Constraints on Horst Evolution; new insights from the Ruby Mountains/East Humboldt Range, Nevada USA
Krugh, W.C., Densmore, A.L. & Seward, D. ................. 146
Detailed apatite fission-track studies in the Bergen area (southwestern Norway): Indication for a fault-dissected basin margin?
Ksienzyk, A., Johansen, L., Jacobs, J., Fossen, H., Emmel, B. & Wemmer, K. ................. 147
Exhumation history of the Hsuehshan Range, central Taiwan and its tectonic implication
Lan, Chih-Hao, Lee, Yuan-His & Lo-Wei ................. 149
Fission Tracks Simulated by Swift Heavy Ions at Crustal Pressures and Temperatures
Lang, M., Lian, J., Zhang, F., Hendriks, B.W.H., Trautmann, C., Neumann, R. & Ewing, R.C. ................. 150
Prolonged Episodic Exhumation in the Eastern Alaska Range
Layer, P.W. & Benowitz, J.A. ................. 151
Mesozoic and Cenozoic landscape evolution of Sri Lanka as indicated by apatite fission track and brittle structural data, and clay mineral analysis
Lisker, F., Emmel, B., Hewawasam, T. & Schlegel, A. ................. 154
Exhumation and Deformation in Western Taiwan
Lock, J., Willett, S. & Chen, Y. ................. 156
Timing of final collisonal stages and exhumation in orogenic belt: inferences from zircon (U-Th)/He dating of low T metamorphism in Ligurian Alps, Northern Italy
Maino, M., Dallagiovanna, G., Dobson, K., Gaggero, L., Persano, C., Seno, S. & Stuart, F.M. ................. 160
Zircon Fission Track dating of exhumation related to arc-parallel extension in the Hellenic forearc basin
Marsellos, A, Kidd, W.S.F., and Garver, J.I. ................. 163
A Raman Spectroscopic Study of zircons with low to medium uranium content
Marsellos, A.E., Garver, J.I., Thomas, J.B., Kidd, W.S.F. ................. 165
Thermochronologic Constraints on the Timing and Magnitude of Thrust Faulting in the Axial Zone of the Pyrenees
Metcalf, J.R., Fitzgerald, P.G., Baldwin, S.L., Anton-Muñoz, J. & Schwabe, E. ................. 168
Using detrital zircon (U-Th)/He cooling ages to reconstruct erosion distribution during the early Holocene Monsoon
Michalak, M., Hourigan, J. & Bookhagen, B. ................. 170
Using Scanning Electron Microscopy for high density fission track dating
Montario, M.J. & Garver, J.I.................. 171
Annealing of radiation damage in a Grenville zircon from the eastern Adirondacks, NY State
Montario, M.J., Marsellos, A. & Garver, J.I. ................. 174
Comparison between annealed apatite fission tracks revealed for different standard chemical etchings in random-oriented grains
Moreira, P.A.F.P., Iunes, P.J., Guedes, S., Curvo, E.A.C., Tello S.C.A. & Hadler, J.C. ................. 177
Late orogenic extension in the north-eastern Albanides (Albania)
Muceku, B., Van der Beek, P., Bernet, M., Reiners, P., Mascle, G. & Tashko, A. . ................. 179
Thermotectonic Evolution of the central Alaska Range: Low-temperature Constraints from on Apatite Fission-Track Thermochronology and (U-Th)/He dating
Perry, S.E. & Fitzgerald, P.G. ................. 182
Reproducibility of old apatite (U-Th)/He ages: an example from East Greenland
Persano, C., Swift, D. A., Stuart, F. M. & Olive, V. ................. 185
Thermochronologic evidence for a late-Pliocene exhumation event in the Lepontine area
Pignalosa, A., Cavazza, W., Massironi, M., Reiners, P.W. & Zattin, M. ................. 188
Quantifying transient erosion of orogens with detrital thermochronology: thermal modeling and application to syntectonic basin deposits in the Pyrenees, Spain
Rahl, J.M., Ehlers, T.A. & Van der Pluijm, B.A.................. 190
Escape tectonics and the extrusion of Alaska: past, present, and future
Redfield, T. F., Scholl, D.W., Fitzgerald, P.G. & Beck Jr., M.E. ................. 191
Tectonic control on the late stage exhumation of the Aar Massif (Switzerland): Constraints from apatite fission track and (U-Th)/He data
Reinecker, J., Danišík, M., Schmid, C., Glotzbach, C., Rahn, M., Frisch, W. & Spiegel, C. ................. 194
Permian-Paleogene temperature and burial evolution of the NW Polish Basin - evidenced by maturity modelling and apatite fission-track dating
Resak, M., Glasmacher, U.A., Narkiewicz, M. & Littke, R. ................. 197
Automated Fission Track Detection Algorithm
Riegler, H., Jonckheere, R.C. ................. 198
Reconstruction of Late Cretaceous uplift and denudation of the Eastern Indian Peninsula by apatite fission track analysis
Sahu, H.S., Raab, M.J., Gleadow, A.J.W. & Kohn, B.P. ................. 200
Paleogene active tectonics in the fold-and-thrust belt of the western Variscan mountain belt, Germany
Sehrt, M., Glasmacher, U.A. & Wipf, M. ................. 202
Apatite fission track thermochronology of Mesozoic sandstone from Southeast Sichuan basin and its tectonic implications of Tibetan plateau margin
Chuan-Bo Shen, Lian-Fu Mei, Tong-Lou Guo & Zhao-Qian Liu. ................. 203
Implications of Detrital Zircon Fission-Track Dating from the Linkou Tableland, Northern Taiwan
Shen, Tzu-Tsen & Liu & Tsung-Kwei ................. 206
Collision and strike-slip tectonics in the Kopeh Dagh and East Alborz-Binalud Ranges, N.E. Iran: A multidisciplinary study to constrain the Cenozoic to present-day tectonic history
Siddall, R., Hollingsworth, J. & Nazari, H. ................. 207
Is Focused Erosion Enhancing Denudation of Domes in the Pamir Mountains?
Sobel, E.R., Thiede, R.C., Schoenbohm, L., Jie, C. & Sudo, M. ................. 208
Thermochronologic Evidence for Late Cenozoic Enhanced Exhumation in the Terskey Range, Kyrgyz Tien Shan
Sobel, E.R., Mikolaichuk, A. & Kohn, B.P. ................. 210
Perturbation of isotherms below topography: Constraints from tunnel transects through the Alps
Spiegel, C., Zattin, M., Glotzbach, C., Pignalosa, A., Reinecker, J., Danišík, M., Massironi, M., Rahn, M. & Frisch, W.................. 212
Neotectonics and exhumation of the St. Elias orogen and Yakutat collision zone, southeast Alaska
Spotila J.A. & Berger, A.L. ................. 214
Apatite fission track thermochronology, external Humber Zone, western Newfoundland Appalachians: Application of coupled multi-compositional inversion modeling and implications for petroleum prospectivity
Stockmal, G.S., Issler, D.R. & Grist, A.M.................. 217
Syn-orogenic extension: late Miocene exhumation of the Shaxdara gneiss dome, Southern Pamirs
Stübner, K., Ratschbacher, L., Dunk, I., Jonckheere, R., Gloaguen, R., Stanek, K. & Webb, A. ................. 219
Kinematic and Thermal History of the Chukungkeng Anticline, Central Taiwan
Chun-Yang Su, Yuan-Hsi Lee & Hsueh-Yu Lu. ................. 221
Geo- and thermochronometric constraints on Tertiary normal faulting and basaltic volcanism along the central Arabian flank of the Red Sea rift system
Szymanski, E., Stockli, D.F., Johnson, P.R., Kattan, F.H. & Cosca, M.................. 222
Thermochronology of fault zones: concepts and examples
Tagami, T.................. 224
Thermochronology through fission tracks in zircon: Methodological study and application
Tello, C.A., Iunes, P.J., Dias, A.N.C. , Constantino, C.J.L., Hadler, J.C., Pallisari, R., Moreira P.A.F.P. & Osório, A.M.A.................. 225
Denudation of the Himalayan Orogen
Thiede, R.C. & Ehlers, T.A. ................. 228
Erosional Variability along the Northwest Himalaya Sensitivity in low temperature chronology to changes to spatial variations in erosion
Thiede, R.C., Ehlers, T.A., Bookhagen, B. & Strecker, M. ................. 231
Thermochronologic evidence for a poleward transition from destructive to constructive glacial control on mountain building: an example from the Patagonian Andes
Thomson, S.N., Brandon, M.T., Vásquez, C., Reiners, P.W. & Tomkin, J.H.................. 232
Application of detrital zircon analysis to identify protolith age, basin evolution, potential correlatives, and provenance of penetratively deformed blueschist-facies metasedimentary rocks, northern Alaska
Till, A. B., Amato, J. M., Aleinikoff, J.N., Dumoulin, J.A. & Bleick, H.A. ................. 236
Recent kinematics and long-term exhumation history of the central Himalaya (Nepal) from numerical modeling of in-situ and detrital thermochronology data
Van der Beek, P., Robert, X., Perry, C., Braun, J. & Bernet, M. ................. 239
Coupled climatic/tectonic forcing of European topography revealed through thermochronometry – The “Thermo-Europe” Project
Van der Beek, P., Andriessen, P., Balestrieri, M-L., Barbero, L., Bernet, M., Cederbom, C., Cosca, M., Glasmacher, U., Juez-Larré, J., Krzywiec, P., Kuhleman, J., Malusà, M., Oncken, O., Persano, C., Sinclair, H., Sobel, E., Spiegel, C., Stuart, F., Wieler, R., Willett, S., Zattin, M. ................. 241
Slow steady exhumation of the high-elevation Deosai Plateau (Northwest Himalaya, Pakistan) since Eocene times
Van Melle, J., Van der Beek, P., Guillot, S., Pêcher, A. & Latif, M. ................. 244
RadialPlotter: a Java application for fission track, luminescence and other radial plots
Vermeesch P.................. 247
Three new ways to calculate average (U–Th)/He ages
Vermeesch, P. ................. 250
New thermochronological constraints on the tectonic history of Western Colombia
Villagómez, D., Spikings, R., Seward, D., Magna, T. & Winkler, W. ................. 253
Bayesian statistical modelling of the uncertainty in the estimation of exhumation rates from age-elevation relationships of fission track data
Vonthein, R. & Reinecker, J. ................. 256
Low-temperature thermochronological evolution of the Greater Himalaya Slab since middle Miocene, constrained by fission-track thermochronology in Nyalam, southern Tibet
Wang, A., Garver, J., Wang, G., Zhang, K. & Xiang, S. ................. 257
Tectonic History During Cenozoic In The Gyirong-Nyalam Area, South Tibet: Evidence From The Study Of Fission-Track Thermochronology
Wang, G, Garver, J.I., Chao, L., An, W., Shuyuan, X., Kexin, Z. & Kai, C. ................. 258
Reconstruction of Paleotopography from Low-Temperature Thermochronological Data
Wang Wei & Zhou Zuyi................. 261
Coincidence Mapping of ion track etch pits in co-irradiated apatite and muscovite: implications for ion track formation and revelation
Wauschkuhn, B., Wiesinger, M., Jonckheere, R.C. & Ratschbacher, L.................. 264
Annealing kinetics of Kr-tracks in manazite: implications for fission-track modelling
Weise, C., Gerald van den Boogaart, K., Jonckheere, R. & Ratschbacher, L. ................. 267
Tectonically coupled sediment routing systems in the fold-thrust belt of the Southern Pyrenees: information from detrital zircon fission track analyses
Whitchurch, A., Carter, A., Allen, P., Armitage, J., Duller, R. & Whittaker, A. ................. 270
Diverse long time landscape evolution on Fuerteventura, Canary Islands, Spain
Wipf, M., Glasmacher, U.A., Stockli, D., Emmerich, A. & Bechstädt, T. ................. 271
Empirical Calibration of Rutile (U-Th-Sm)/He Thermochronology: Assessing the thermal evolution of the KTB drill hole, Germany and adjacent Bohemian Massif
Wolfe, M.R. & Stockli, D.F. ................. 274
Apatite fission track studies on the tectonics in Nanmulin area of Gangdese terrane, Tibet plateau
WanMing Yuan, Qiugeng Zheng, Dong JinQuan, Zengkuan Bao & Jun Deng ................. 276
4He Solubility in Apatite is Low
Zeitler, P.K., Enkelmann, E. & Idleman, B.D. ................. 278
The Stolz Thrust and its connection with the Eocene Metasequoia Fossil Forest of Axel Heiberg Island, Canadian Arctic Archipelago: Apatite fission track evidence
Zentilli, M., Grist, A.M. & Williamson, M-C.................. 280