Dear Sean, Andy, and Barry,
Ewald Hejl and Dale Issler have reviewed your manuscript “Thermal Annealing of Implanted 252Cf Fission-Tracks in Monazite”. I agree with both reviewers that your study is an extremely interesting contribution to low-temperature thermochronology, with high quality data presented in a very structured way. For even further improving the manuscript, both reviewers provided valuable suggestions: Ewald Hejl provided useful comments on the crystallographic aspects of the study, while Dale Issler suggests to give more information on the details of the annealing experiments and the potential influence of ambient annealing – something I also consider as very important. I am looking forward to reading the revised version of your manuscript incorporating the suggested changes.
All the best, Cornelia

Dear Sean,
Thank you for submitting the revised version of your manuscript. The original comments of the reviewers were all very positive and all their suggestions are fully incorporated, so your paper is now ready for publication.
Thanks to the reviewers Ewald Hejl and Dale Issler for providing very constructive and insightful comments, and thank you for submitting this interesting study to Geochronology. It is an important contribution for establishing a new thermochronometer potentially sensitive to the ultra-low temperature range.
All the best, Cornelia

I agree with the associate editor. Thanks very much for submitting your work to Geochronology.

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