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https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-3-321-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-3-321-2021
Research article
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25 May 2021
Research article |  | 25 May 2021

Simulating sedimentary burial cycles – Part 1: Investigating the role of apatite fission track annealing kinetics using synthetic data

Kalin T. McDannell and Dale R. Issler

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We generated a synthetic dataset applying published kinetic models and distinct annealing kinetics for the apatite fission track and (U–Th)/He methods using a predetermined thermal history. We then tested how well the true thermal history could be recovered under different data interpretation schemes and geologic constraint assumptions using the Bayesian QTQt software. Our results demonstrate that multikinetic data increase time–temperature resolution and can constrain complex thermal histories.