Title
Experimental study of a methodology for Fission-track Dating without neutron irradiation
Date Issued
01 October 2009
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Hadler J.C.
Iunes P.J.
Chemale F.
Kawashita K.
Curvo E.A.C.
Santos F.G.S.
Gasparini T.E.
Moreira P.A.F.P.
Guedes S.
Universidade do Estado de São Paulo
Abstract
To carry out the dating by the Fission Track Method (FTM) the international community that works with this method employs methodologies in which the mineral to be dated must be irradiated with neutrons. Such irradiation, performed in a nuclear reactor, demand a relatively long waiting time so that the activity of the sample attain a proper level for handling. The present work aims to establish a methodology that makes possible the dating by FTM using a mass spectrometer instead of a nuclear reactor. This methodology was applied to apatite samples from Durango, Mexico. © 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Start page
955
End page
957
Volume
44
Issue
October 9
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Geociencias, Multidisciplinar
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-70949085439
Source
Radiation Measurements
ISSN of the container
13504487
Sponsor(s)
We are grateful to Dr. Charles W. Naeser, Dr. Giulio Bigazzi and Dr. Raymond Donelick for providing the Durango apatite crystals employed in this work. We are also indebted to the Brazilian foundations CNPq and FAPESP, for the financial support and to the staff of the nuclear reactor of IPEN/CNEN, São Paulo, Brazil, for performing the neutron irradiations.
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