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Thermochronology by fission tracks: An exact inverse method associated with the resolution of a single ordinary differential equation (ODE)

✍ Scribed by A. Chambaudet; J.C. Miellou; H. Igli; M. Rebetez; M. Grivet


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1993
Weight
619 KB
Volume
22
Category
Article
ISSN
0969-8078

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✦ Synopsis


After a short review of the thermal stability of fission tracks in apatite, including some annealing equations, we present a smoke convection problem, which is analogous to the fission track production sod mn~ process.

This analogy leads us to ~ an inverse method for retracing the thermal history of a rock from the track length distribution, using a first order annealing equation. In this specific framework this leads us to solve an ordinary differential equation, the exact solution of which is the sought thermal history.