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Articles | Volume 4, issue 1
Articles | Volume 4, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-4-109-2022
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https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-4-109-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 4, issue 1
Short communication/technical note
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23 Feb 2022
Short communication/technical note |  | 23 Feb 2022

Short communication: Experimental factors affecting fission-track counts in apatite

Carolin Aslanian, Raymond Jonckheere, Bastian Wauschkuhn, and Lothar Ratschbacher

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Fission tracks are damage trails from uranium fission in minerals, whose ages and thermal histories are deduced from their number and length. A mineral is etched for observing the tracks with a microscope. We show that the etching and observation conditions affect the track count and explain it in the framework of a recent etch model. We conclude that established solutions do not secure that the ages and thermal histories inferred from track counts and measurements are accurate.
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