| Fission-Track Dating Contributor(s): Wagner, Gunther A. (Author), Wagner, G. (Author), Van Den Haute, P. (Author) |
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ISBN: 079231624X ISBN-13: 9780792316244 Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers OUR PRICE: $94.05 Product Type: Hardcover Published: July 1992 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Earth Sciences - Geology - Science | Physics - Geophysics |
| Dewey: 551.701 |
| LCCN: 91047967 |
| Series: Fundamental Theories of Physics |
| Physical Information: 285 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Fission track dating is based on the microscopic observation and counting of etchable tracks left by the spontaneous fission of uranium in minerals. Since its development in 1963 the method attracted a steadily growing interest from geologists and geochronologists throughout the world. Apart from its relative experimental ease the success must be mainly ascribed to the specific ability of the method of unravelling the thermal and tectonic history of rocks, a potential which only became fully exploited during the last decade with the systematic introduction of track size analysis. |