Low-Temperature Thermochronology:

Techniques, Interpretations, and Applications

Peter W. Reiners, Todd A. Ehlers, Peter W. Reiners, Todd A. Ehlers

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN:
  9780939950706
• eBook ISBN:
  9781501509575
• Topic: Sciences physiques
• Subtopic: Minéralogie

Volume 58 of Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry presents 22 chapters covering many of the important modern aspects of thermochronology. The coverage of the chapters ranges widely, including historical perspective, analytical techniques, kinetics and calibrations, modeling approaches, and interpretational methods. In general, the chapters focus on intermediate- to low-temperature thermochronometry, though some chapters cover higher temperature methods such as monazite U/Pb closure profiles, and the same theory and approaches used in low-temperature thermochronometry are generally applicable to higher temperature systems. The widely used low- to medium-temperature thermochronometric systems are reviewed in detail in these chapters, but while there are numerous chapters reviewing various aspects of the apatite (U-Th)/He system, there is no chapter singularly devoted to it, partly because of several previous reviews recently published on this topic.

Table of contents

• DEDICATION
• PREFACE
• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• 1. Past, Present, and Future of Thermochronology
• 2. Fundamentals of Fission-Track Thermochronology
• 3. Apatite Fission-Track Analysis
• 4. Zircon Fission-Track Thermochronology and Applications to Fault Studies
• 5. Fundamentals of Noble Gas Thermochronometry
• 6. Zircon (U-Th)/He Thermochronometry
• 7. ⁴He/³He Thermochronometry: Theory, Practice, and Potential Complications
• 8. Fission-track Analysis of Detrital Zircon
• 9. ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar Thermochronology of Detrital Minerals
• 10. Forward Modeling and Interpretation of (U-Th)/He Ages
• 11. Forward and Inverse Modeling of Low-Temperature Thermochronometry Data
• 12. Crustal Thermal Processes and the Interpretation of Thermochronometer Data
• 13. Quantitative Constraints on the Rate of Landform Evolution Derived from Low-Temperature Thermochronology
• 14. Exploiting 3D Spatial Sampling in Inverse Modeling of Thermochronological Data
• 15. Continuous Thermal Histories from Inversion of Closure Profiles
• 16. Application of Low-Temperature Thermochronometry to Extensional Tectonic Settings
• 17. Applications of Low-Temperature Thermochronometry to Quantification of Recent Exhumation in Mountain Belts
• 18. Application of Thermochronology to Hydrothermal Ore Deposits
• 19. Thermochronometers in Sedimentary Basins
• 20. Visualizing Thermotectonic and Denudation Histories Using Apatite Fission Track Thermochronology
• 21. Low-Temperature Thermochronometry of Meteorites
• 22. Computational Tools for Low-Temperature Thermochronometer Interpretation