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Fission Track Analysis and Its Application in Mineralogy
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Fission Track Analysis and Its Application in Mineralogy

A special issue of Minerals (ISSN 2075-163X). This special issue belongs to the section "Mineral Geochemistry and Geochronology".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (24 October 2022) | Viewed by 1777

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Carlos Alberto Tello Sáenz

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Departamento de Física, Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho", Sao Paulo 19060-900, Brazil
Interests: thermo-chronology by fission track; U-Th/He; U-Pb

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Apatite and zircon are common accessory minerals in igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks. Recently, there have significant advances in the understanding of the temperature dependence of fission track annealing and fission track length distributions. Fission track analysis provides detailed information on the low-temperature thermal histories of rocks and may be applied below ~120 oC for tracks in apatite and below ~350 oC for zircon. Both fission track and U-Pb, which are obtained from the same zircon and/or apatite grains, are widely used to study the thermochronology of different areas of geological interest. With these methodologies, it is possible to determine in-depth information for temperatures below ~800 oC for U-Pb in zircon and ~500 oC for U-Pb in apatite. Furthermore, fission track and U-Pb methodologies show excellent potential in elucidating solutions to a variety of geological problems, including sedimentary provenance, thermal history modeling of sedimentary basins, structural evolution of orogenic belts, and long-term continental denudation.

Dr. Carlos Alberto Tello Sáenz
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • fission track and U-Pb thermochronology
  • orogenic belts and denudation
  • sedimentary basins evolution and provenance
  • thermal history modeling
  • rifted margins
  • mineral deposits

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Late Cretaceous Activity Record of the Guangsan Fault—Insights from Zircon U-Pb and Apatite Fission-Track Thermochronology
by Ruxin Ding, Weihao Chen, Cleber Soares, Weisheng Hou, Zilong Li, Yangshijia Li, Rongli Huang and Heping Zou
Minerals 2022, 12(9), 1163; https://doi.org/10.3390/min12091163 - 14 Sep 2022
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The timing of fault activity is a concern for geologists. This study used zircon U-Pb and apatite fission-track dating of fault breccia to determine the upper and lower limits for the time of faulting. The Guangsan fault in South China was taken as [...] Read more.
The timing of fault activity is a concern for geologists. This study used zircon U-Pb and apatite fission-track dating of fault breccia to determine the upper and lower limits for the time of faulting. The Guangsan fault in South China was taken as an example, and zircon U-Pb and apatite fission-track thermochronology were applied to the surrounding rock and fault breccia. The surrounding rock and fault breccia demonstrated 74.9–91.8 Ma and 73.9–93.5 Ma zircon U-Pb dates, respectively, indicating that the breccia formed after 73.9 Ma. They also demonstrated 71.6 ± 7.3 Ma and 85.9 ± 8.2–65.5 ± 6.5 Ma fission-track dates, implying that the fault breccia samples likely formed before ~70 Ma. Their thermal histories were highly consistent: both showed rapid cooling during 70–65 Ma and slow cooling during 65–0 Ma, implying that the fault was likely still active during 70–65 Ma, resulting in the rapid exhumation. Full article
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