January 1999, Volume 8, Number 2, Issue 17
Editor: Alexander Grist
Fission Track Research Laboratory,
Department of Earth Sciences,
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 3J5
In this Issue:
• Editor's Notes 2
• Short Tracks: News 2
• Special Announcement: GEOCANADA 2000 by Lisel Currie 3
• Special Announcement : Year 2000 Fission Track Conference by Barry Kohn 4
• I’ve lost my apatite by Sandy Grist 5
• Swiss Tracks by Diane Seward and Richard Spikings 7
• A letter to the editor by Jiri Filip 9
• Recent Fission-Track Papers 10
• A list of recent fission-track papers by Osamu Himeno 10
• 1998 Directory of the International Fission-Track Community 13
• It’s a small world AFTA all! 23
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PREVIOUS EDITORS:
Dave Coyle (1990-91), La Trobe University
Trevor Dumitru (1991-92), Stanford University
Rasoul Sorkhabi (1992-93)Arizona State University
Dennis Arne (1993-94) Dalhousie University
Richard J. Weiland (1994-95) U of Texas, Austin
Ruth Siddall (1995-96) University College London
Danny Stockli (1996-97) Stanford University
Paul O'Sullivan (1997-98) La Trobe University
CURRENT EDITOR:
Alexander Grist
Department of Earth Sciences
Dalhousie Universtiy
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Canada B3H 3J5
Tel. (902) 494-2372
Fax. (902) 494-6889
E-mail: agrist@is.dal.ca
Editor’s Notes
I would first like to extend my thanks to the previous editor of On Track, Paul O’Sullivan. Without his help, as well as that from another previous editor Trevor Dumitru, the transition in editorship over the last few months would have been much more difficult than it was. On Track is beginning its ninth year of publication, and has evolved and grown significantly during those years, reflecting the ongoing need and importance of such a newsletter designed for fission trackers!
In this issue of On Track: Diane Seward and Richard Spikings write to tell about old and new mountains, labs, on other interests of the Swiss FT group at ETH in Zurich. There is a special announcement (and a mini poster insert) provided by Barry Kohn on the FT Y2K conference at Lorne, Victoria, Australia (having spent too many Februarys in the snow in Halifax, I am now making my travel plans). Lisel Currie (who is soon to be a mom!) also has an announcement for us (but its not about that, its about a special FT session, to be held during the GEOCANADA 2000 meeting in Calgary, Alberta, Canada). Jari Filip writes to tell the fission track community that he (and others) will establish a new fission track lab at the Institute of Geology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. (I do so enjoy getting mail!). Osamu Himeno does a literature search for us. Some guy named Sandy Grist tells us what to do to get more gristy sand, and of course the short track news.
I would also like to thank Trevor Dumitru of FT Stage Systems, Becky Jamieson, of Dalhousie University, and Mike Krochmal of Autoscan Systems, who by ordering advertisements have permitted the continued free distribution of On Track. Most importantly, I would like to thank the man who pays my salary, Marcos Zentilli, who by allowing me to work on this issue for many days now, has also heavily subsidized its production costs.
Short Tracks: News
The following news items appeared magically in my e-mail box in the last few months. First, Paul Fitzgerald wrote to say that after spending all of 1997 and some of 1998 in New Zealand working for Antarctica New Zealand as their first Science Strategy Manager, (sort of like a program manager, but for all the New Zealand science being done in Antarctica) as well as writing a new Antarctic science strategy for New Zealand, he is back at the University of Arizona working as a research scientist. He enjoyed his time as a young bureaucrat, but also enjoys being a scientist again - although he does miss the expense account. The highlight of his time there was a winter trip to Antarctica. He has fission track-based projects underway in Antarctica and the Pyrenees. He is currently on his next fieldseason in Antarctica (Dec. 98- Jan. 99) and upon his return can be reached at his new address: Paul Fitzgerald, Ph.D., Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, PO Box 210077, Tucson, Arizona 85721, U.S.A . phone: (520) 621-4052.
Paul also tells us that Scott Miller finished his Masters thesis, entitled-
"Landscape development of the transantarctic Mountains, Shackleton Glacier area, Antarctica: An integration of structural geology, geomorphology, and
apatite fission-track thermochronology" at the beginning of this year.
Maurice Pagel wrote to tell me that Jean-Jacques Braun is now working at ORSTROM in Yaoande, and is no longer interested in FT studies.
Barry Kohn informs us that with the appointment of Andy Gleadow as Professor and Head of Department of the School of Earth Sciences at the University of Melbourne in February 1999, the La Trobe fission track group, probably more accurately now called the Thermochronology Group, will be re-established there during the first half of 1999. The group looks forward to a new period of exciting research developments and practical applications. Note that the 9th International Conference on Fission Track Dating and Thermochronology will be hosted by the group out of the University of Melbourne (sited about 25 minutes drive from La Trobe) and all web and e-mail correspondence will be directed to addresses which will be based there (Ed: see ad this issue).
Special Announcement: GEOCANADA 2000
by Lisel Currie
Institute of Sedimentary and Petroleum Geology
3303-33rd St., NW, Calgary, Alberta, T2L 2A7, Canada
lcurrie@gsc.NRCan.gc.ca
A special session on fission track studies in Canada will be held at GEOCANADA 2000, a joint meeting of Canada’s major geoscience societies, including the Geological Association of Canada, the Mineralogical Association of Canada, the Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists, the Canadian Society of Exploration Geophysicists, and many more. The meeting will be held at the University of Calgary, Alberta, from May 29 to June 2, 2000. We feel that this special session will raise awareness of ongoing fission track studies, and the potential for future fission track studies in Canada. (Note: Previously discussed plans for a Fission Tracks in Canada workshop, and a low temperature thermochronometry short course have been put on hold).
The special session should be of interest to many people working in the oil and gas industry, as well as most ONTRACK readers. However, we expect that this session will be significantly different from, and will not detract from, the International Fission Track Workshop to be held in Australia during the same year. Most presentations are expected to focus on fission track studies of parts of Canada. Keynote talks will address the application of AFT to hydrocarbon exploration and the analysis of tectonics and environments in a variety of geological settings. In addition we hope that the AFT community shall contribute additional presentations and posters regarding their current work in thermochronology.
It is hoped that papers presented during the special session will contribute to a special volume of the Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences that will highlight Canadian fission track data and its application to geologic problems. The special session will be sponsored by the Structural Geology and Tectonics Division of the Geological Association of Canada.
The 9th International Conference on Fission Track Dating and Thermochronology will take place at Lorne, Victoria, Australia on 6-11 February, 2000. The meeting will be held at the Cumberland Lorne Conference and Leisure Resort, which offers state-of-the-art conference facilities and technology.
Lorne, located some 140 km southwest of Melbourne in the heart of the Otway Basin, is one of Australia’s most picturesque coastal towns. Golden sands and rolling surf on one side, the exotic rainforests and waterfalls of the Otway Ranges on the other — and the magnificent Great Ocean Road hugging the coastline in between makes this a superb destination.
The Conference will cover all important aspects of fission track analysis and its modern applications in earth and related sciences. It will be structured to identify new directions of research. The program will run as a single session and include: thematic sessions, two workshops, poster sessions and a mid-conference field trip in the Otway Basin. Two field trips, one pre- and one post-conference each of 4-5 days duration, may be offered depending on the initial response received.
Contributions can be submitted either as oral or poster presentations, but software presentations are also acceptable. Oral presentations will be selected by the Organizing Committee on the criteria of originality and relevance of a submitted abstract to the subject matter of a particular theme or workshop. English will be the official language of the Conference, both for oral and poster presentations.
I’ve lost my apatite
by Sandy Grist
Fission Track Research Lab., Department of Earth Sciences
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 3J5
(or There’s many a slip betwixt a cup and a lip!)
A fairly common problem encountered in the production of really good thermal history models and animations of evolving landscapes is that of a good sample gone bad. It started out with so much promise, a half split of a 150 mm diameter dirty sandstone drillcore that weighed about 2 kg with visible lamellae of (supposed) heavy minerals. You bash it through your standard procedure for procurement of apatite (jaw crusher, disk mill, tetrabromoethane (TBE) or sodium polytungstate (SPT), magnetic (Frantz), and di-iodomethane (MI) (even with constriction tubes), and then you look at it under the binocular microscope and..
Nothing (well almost nothing, few enough grains that you wonder if they are contaminants from the previous sample), and you ask yourself "What happened to the apatite?" So you painstakingly hand pick all fourteen euhedral grains and mount them in a nice line, polish and etch them (four had dislocations, four were zoned and the other six have only 10 tracks between them) (Oh yeah, this drillcore is from 4 km deep!). You get a couple of lengths from the zoned grains, and there’s your thermal history data. I hope this doesn’t sound too familiar!
So what went wrong? There are only two possibilities. Either there were only fourteen grains in the sample to begin with (This is the explanation most people tend to go with.) or somehow the apatite ended up somewhere other than on the grain mount. Its this latter possibility that I’d like to examine for a few paragraphs, and offer some tips that may help to increase the likelihood of getting a decent yield and more data out of that chunk of core. So lets look at what’s being done during each step of the process.
Crushing and sieving: I would suggest that you set your disk mill plates to a spacing of about 0.1 mm and don’t move them at all. Also, you don’t have to put the rock through the mill more than twice. The coarse residue after the second pass is dominated by quartz shards, micas, and flat cherty and shaly bits that tend to heat up and wear out the plates rather than crush further. All the apatite is liberated by this time. I might also suggest that you try out a set of ceramic plates. These are very pricey, but...(allow me to sell you a couple).
-They are harder than the tungsten/carbide steel plates. The ceramic plates we currently have on our disk mill have seen more than 100 samples of many different rock types and they show no signs of wearing out any time soon, which makes them economical. Also, the metal grinding plate flakes that get produced (which ordinarily end up in your sample, rust badly upon washing, turn your tungstate blue, and coat and contaminate your apatite grains) don’t!
-Ceramic is an insulator. They don’t get hot, which is very important for your peace of mind and also reduces problems that you might otherwise encounter if your disk mill has a thermal shut-off.
Don’t use a fine sieve to remove the fine-grained fraction (unless you are trying to get rid of drilling mud from cuttings). Apatite and the other heavy minerals tend to be more fine-grained than accompanying quartz and feldspars, especially in sedimentary rocks, and by tossing the fines you may be rejecting the most apatite-rich fraction. Use repeating washing to get rid of the fraction that is too small to work with (i.e. the clays and the powder that is produced by crushing). The fine-grained heavy minerals settle out more rapidly than light or flat grains and so are not lost. (a lab trick: If the samples smells strongly of oil and steadfastly refuses to wet, soak it in a solvent first (such as chloroform) to liberate the oil from grains or you will end up pouring a lot of grains down the sink.) The washing procedure is the same as you use to clean a sample after sieving to remove the fines, you just do it more times, so that the time you save sieving, you spend in extra washing.
Use a rectangular plastic flat-bottomed container. Agitate the sample with jets of water to a depth of about 20 cm. Wait about 20 seconds for everything coarse silt-sized and larger to settle out, and decant (pour off the muddy water without disturbing the sediment). For sandstones you have to do this about 20 times before the water becomes clear enough to easily see the sediment after the 20 seconds have elapsed. I know it seems like a lot of work, but at least the water isn’t toxic, and its necessary if you want your TBE or SPT filtering to work correctly (or at all!).
TBE or SPT: This is fairly straightforward and Dave Coyle has already explained the mysteries of SPT (see OnTrack vol. 1 no. 3) so I won’t. The key to success with these heavy liquids seems to be adequate stirring (see below). (As an aside, SPT forms a salt solution that is acidic, with a pH of about 2.7 when the density is about 2.8 g/cm3. It does not dissolve apatite, but it is hard on the hands if you don’t wear gloves.)
Look in the last magnetic fraction. Some apatite often ends up in the second-least magnetic fraction. Perhaps because it contains some inclusions or coatings that make it slightly more magnetic, or perhaps the apatite has a range of magnetic susceptibilities that depend on its composition, or it could be just that the Frantz is not 100% effective, but there are often a few grains, and sometimes many-many grains in this fraction. It is definitely worth checking.
Hand-picking definitely biases samples. It is also excruciatingly slow and should be avoided as much as possible. When you select your apatite a grain at a time there is a tendency to pick the most euhedral, clean-looking grains. It is entirely possible that those milky-looking rounded grains that make up most of the separate that you are picking are also apatite, and are quite dateable.
A test for apatite (another lab trick): If you aren’t sure if a mineral in the separate is apatite or not, here is one way to find out. Pick a couple of grains with a moistened 000 camel’s hair brush (or with a needle mounted on the end of a disposable chopstick moistened with oil from behind your ear, or whatever technique you prefer to use to pick fly dung out of pepper). Place them in a few drops of dilute nitric acid. If they are apatite they will dissolve in a few minutes without producing any gas bubbles. Of course this is a destructive test, so don’t use it if there are only a few of the grains present.
Mount some and find out for sure. The simple act of pouring an aliquot from a large-ish bottle of sample biases it (You tend to get large round grains coming out first.), so make sure that the grains you mount are the ones that you want to check on. One way to do this is to use what I call a paper slide (another lab trick). Simply spread the sample in a line across about a half-sheet of US letter or A4 paper and hold the end of the paper with the sample on it up about 5 cm (2 inches) and tap the edge lightly with a finger. The first grains down the hill are the large round ones, which could be some rounded detrital apatite from a blocky carbonate-rich separate, (this would be your sample) or it could be some of those annoying quartz-sulphide multiples (which would improve the purity of the remaining sample).
Next down the hill is the great majority of the grains (they tend to move together). The last grains down the hill, and those that refuse to slide tend to be the finest and the flattest. The finest may include some apatite. The flattest tend to be muscovite and/or quartz shards (These should have been removed by heavy liquids, but you often get a few hangers-on, probably from the sides of the funnel as a result of inadequate stirring.) which can easily be removed by sieving. You can do the paper slide several times and then mount the most likely looking fraction. I use the Naeser method using teflon-coated bakeware (yet another lab trick, and yet another culinary reference!) because it’s cheap, very flat and doesn’t stick to the epoxy. The mount is also so smooth that you don’t even have to polish it to determine petrographically whether or not it contains apatite.
You may wonder "Of what use are the most fine-grained apatite if they are too small to date?" (because for geometry reasons you can’t put your grid too close to an exterior surface). This limitation doesn’t apply to length measurements. You can measure the length of a confined track anywhere on a grain. The fine-grained apatite is very useful for making extra length mounts or mounts for Cf252 irradiation to increase the amount of length data you obtain. Of course it’s best to obtain your age and length data from the same grains, and in certain samples (like a 4 km deep drillcore) you risk biasing your length data towards more resistant Cl-rich grains relative to your age data by doing otherwise. However, with the exception of apatite from some granites it is often not possible to do this. The increasingly routine use of Ray Donelick’s technique of irradiation of length mounts with Cf252 to increase available length data is evidence of this. (A.C. calls this Californicating.)
Of course some samples are just duds, and no amount of scratching around for more grains is going to help. But drilling for that core cost about a thousand dollars a meter, so you are going to want to squeeze out every grain. I hope that this will help you to get a few more.
(Ed. Note: See what happens when you don’t submit articles!)
Swiss Tracks
by Diane Seward and Richard Spikings
CH-8092, Zurich, Switzerland
(diane@eurasia.ethz.ch/georas@luff.latrobe.edu.au)
Switzerland made its first siting of fission tracks in the 1980’s when Tony Hurford built up a considerable fission-track group in Bern. When he left, there was a small hiatus until the present Swiss fission-track group began when Diane Seward arrived at ETH; it has grown steadily since 1990. We are a mixed group, not two from one nation. We are Spanish, Italian, French, English, New Zealand, Chinese, Austrian, Bulgarian and a single Swiss (who is working over the border in Germany!). Richard Spikings and Diane are lucky that our communication language is English for all. During its life span, research interests have concentrated on the application of the FT technique to various geological problems and most work is a combination of tracks with another discipline. Projects have included: sedimentary and dynamic basin evolution studies in the interAndean valley of Southern Ecuador; a post-orogenic regional study of the Uralian Orogenic Belt; retracing the Gondwanan history of Madagascar; and an ever-expanding number of projects related to the development of the European alpine chain, the Himalayas and related basin systems. The purpose of this contribution is to present the currently active projects and a small amount of recently acquired data.
Europe
The European Alpine Project recently started with Meinert Rahn (our singing scientist) and Diane Seward in charge. The final goal of this project is to generate, with the aid of AFT analysis, a contoured exhumation history of a very young orogeny possessing a considerable amount of topographic relief. Basically, this means digging into the literature, compiling all existing data (and there is a lot!) and generating more, particularly track length measurements which are missing in most old studies. Data compilation and computer modelling shall be performed and will be presented at the Melbourne Work Shop. Because we have to restrict ourselves to an area that can be handled in a reasonable amount of time, (2 years), we will focus on the Central Alps, between Mont Blanc in the West and the Brenner line in the East. Additionally, the project will profit highly from several other contemporaneous multidisciplinary studies in the Central Alps.
Diane also has a project in the region of Pelvoux, southeast France together with a colleague currently in Nancy, France, as well as one in the southern Alps - not the New Zealand ones!
Bernhard Fugenschuh, who completed a Ph.D. at ETH in 1994 has established a FT lab’ in Basel (all of one hour away by train). He is concentrating his efforts in the western Alps and the Carpathians. Most of his FT work is combined with structural geology and detailed field mapping. For those of you not working in young terranes it is amazing (encouraging ??) to see how much fine detail Bernhard is being able to extract from his data set.
Giulio Viola has been a Ph.D. student at ETH for more than two years. He is concentrating his study in the gastronomic region of northern Italy where he is attempting to quantify fault displacements along the Periadriatic fault system. Additionally, he is also performing extensive structural field studies and laboratory analyses in order to investigate the processes of mylonite formation.
Lourdes Sanchez Rodriguez has confirmed, via the use of FT analysis in conjunction with a SHRIMP study on zircons, the extremely rapid exhumation of the Ronda in southern Spain. Lourdes has almost completed her Ph.D thesis and is taking a position with Shell Research in the Hague in December.
Alexandre Kounov , our Bulgarian geologist, is currently busy attacking geological questions of the Balkan Peninsula (without the aid of UN resolutions and a shiny kalashnikov). Alex is combining AFT/ZFT analysis with sedimentary basin and mapping studies in order to analyse the thermal and tectonic evolution of the Osogovo-Lisec core complex in Western Bulgaria.
Ecuador
After departing the 16th Latin American Kongress (October 1998), which was hosted in northern Bavaria (hic!), it was clear that with the exception of two folks, one from the UK and one from France, Ecuador has suffered years of neglect from geologists - they’re all further south in Argentina and Chile. However, Ecuador presents an interesting set of geological problems and ETH has been contributing to the study of Ecuadorian geology since 1993.
The Ecuadorian continental margin has been active for ~230 Ma, starting within the Tethyan spreading system and currently overriding the Nazca Plate. Traversing cratonwards, this period of almost continual tectonism has resulted in the superposition of an Eocene forearc sequence, late Miocene western Sierra, early Miocene interandean basins, a late Cretaceous eastern Sierra and a foreland basin which is commonly thought to have been developing since the Maastrichtian. These geologically defined regions rest unconformably on a late Triassic distensive continental margin which is in-filled with Jurassic carbonate and volcanic sequences.
The first contributions came from Dominik Hungerbuhler and Michi Steinmann (1 Diplom and Ph.D each) who combined zircon and apatite FT analysis with sedimentological studies within basins of the interandean valley. (Dominik has now moved to Shell Research and Michi is in Peru working for Glencore, so jobs do exist after fission track!) This approach resulted in tightly constraining the timing of intermontane and marine stages and hence the development of the Western Sierra as a prominant topographic ridge.
Our current interests are concentrated further eastwards (a weak attempt to avoid the aspirin starved Pichincha volcano) where we are studying the relationship between the development of the eastern Sierra and the foreland basin. The study includes a structural, 40Ar/39Ar and AFT/ZFT investigation of various regions of the eastern Sierra (Richard Spikings) and combined sedimentological and AFT/ZFT work in the foreland basin (Geoffrey Ruiz). Our initial objective is to test the geodynamic foreland basin model of DeCelles and Giles (1996). Quantification of the rates of structural development and foreland migration of the Sierra and its orogenic wedge system will be combined with a knowledge of chrono-stratigraphy, sedimentation rates, sedimentary provenance and the timing of development of angular unconformities within the foreland basin. It is early days, but initial AFT ages from the Sierra vary between ~ 80 - 20 Ma, and show considerable variation of ~ 50 Ma over N-S trending mapped faults. Apatite uranium levels tend to be low (< 5 ppm) so unfortunately confined horizontal tracks are scarce, however, initial track-length distributions are narrow with long mean lengths (> 13.6 : m). Sedimentological observations from the orogenic wedge suggest the foreland basin may have been initiated as early as the Aptian.
It’s always comforting to return back to friendly Switzerland, the therapeutic chirp of the cuckoos, clean pavements with evenly spaced cracks, and most of all, commanding officer Seward not yelling "is that tree trunk an anaconda or a tree trunk?"
The outside world
Prof. Zuyi Zhao visited ETH for one year during 1997 - 1998. After wrestling with the fission-track technique he is eager to establish a similar laboratory in Shanghai, China. Zuyi completed several sets of drill hole data from the Jiangsu Basin, north of Shangai and taught us all the rudiments of Chinese music while he was in the laboratory counting.
Diane continues to work in the Urals and Madagascar. These two projects are approaching completion and both seem to have some interesting information with respect to chemistry and long term annealing. The Urals are so boring... the same ages from north to south and east to west.... maybe we have reached the limits of interpretation that fission-track analysis can achieve when assessing post-orogenic histories of old orogenic belts. Samples from Mongolia also present the same problem.
Matevz Lorencak has completed a diplom (MSc equivalent) analysing the Shushwap core complex, in Canada. He plans to continue his academic career and proceed with postgraduate studies involving fission-track analysis.
Marc Jolivet appears as often as he can. He escapes the ambience of southern France for a dose of sobriety (!) in the lab here. Marc is working in the Northern belts of Tibet, specifically the Altyn Tagh and Qilian Shan. Apatite ages there range from 6 to 20 Ma, in good agreement with previous work by Tapponnier et al, (1998) based on tectonic and sedimentary studies. So far Zircon FT ages are all Jurassic, though this may change as his sample number increases. He is learning the methods here while completing ages for his Ph.D thesis. A brand new Zeiss microscope arrived a few weeks ago in Montpellier and it is hoped that a fission-track facility will be developed there.
Aufwiedersehen...(pet)
A letter to the editor:
Prague, 1 December, 1998
Dear Mr Grist,
I would like to inform you that a fission-track laboratory will be established at the Institute of Geology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. Last year we decided to develop the laboratory for all our colleagues – geologists in the Czech Republic – to use the advantages of this method for propagating their scientific studies. This method has not systematically been developed and used in our country, and we hope for a good acceptance with the Czech community of geologists.
But the start is not so easy as it seemed to be at first. Fortunately, we have met many good people who helped us willingly.
I am very obliged to Dr. Ulrich Mann (Institut fuer Chemie und Dynamik der Geosphaere - Forschungszentrum Juelich) who involved me in his research project, and to the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) for its financial support without which it I would not have been able to realize my foreign stay; during this stay I had the exceptional chance to work at the Forschungsstelle Archaeometrie of the Max-Planck-Institut fuer Kernphysik at Heidelberg.
I am most grateful to Professor Wagner who received me friendly at his laboratory and made it possible for me to work there, and to Dr. Glasmacher and Dr. Jonkheere who helped me with my first diffident steps in the F-T analysis field.
I am greatly indebted to Professor Hurford (Research School of Geological Sciences, London) and Dr Kohn (Department of Earth Sciences, La Trobe University) who sent personally CN5 glasses and apatite standards to Heidelberg during my stay there and expressed interest in my efforts.
Dear Mr Grist, please would you be so kind as to inform the whole international F-T community about establishing the F-T laboratory at our Institute, and include my name and address in the International Fission-Track Directory.
I hope all the "Trackers" will accept a new member of their community with kind favour, and I look forward to meeting them at the 2000 Fission Track Conference.
Yours sincerely,
Jiri Filip
Filip, Jiri
Institute of Geology
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Rozvojova 135
165 02 Prague, Czech Republic
Tel.: +420-2-20922628, ext. 248
Fax: +420-2-20922670
Email filip@gli.cas.cz
Recent Fission-Track Papers
Here is a list of recently or soon-to-be published fission track papers that were submitted by the authors for inclusion in this issue of On Track. I am grateful to the authors for the information. If you have a paper that you would like to see listed in this section, please send the complete reference or a photocopy of the first page to the editor. A copy of the entire paper would also be appreciated. We are also interested in non-fission-track papers that may be of special interest to the fission-track community. Papers in press are welcome, please include an estimate of the expected month of publication.
Fitzgerald P.G. and S.L. Baldwin, 1997. Detachment Fault Model for the Evolution of the Ross Embayment. In: Ricci C.A. (ed.), The Antarctic Region: Geological Evolution and Processes, Terra Antarctica Publication,
Siena, 555-564.
Fitzgerald, P. G., and Stump, E., 1997, Cretaceous and Cenozoic episodic denudation of the Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica: New Constraints from apatite fission track thermochronology in the Scott Glacier region, Journal of Geophysical Research, 102, 7747-7765.
Yegingil Y., Bigazzi G., Poupeau G. and Bellot-Gurlet L. (1998) Provenance studies of obsidian artefacts in Anatolia : the contribution of the fission track analyses, in : Light on Top of the Black Hill, Eds. G. Arsebuk, M. J. Mellink et W. Schirmer, EGE Publications, Istanbul, 823-844.
Bellot-Gurlet L., Calligaro Th., Dorighel O., Dran J.-C., Poupeau G. and Salomon J. (1998) PIXE analysis and fission track dating of obsidian from South American prehispanic cultures : an insight over the circulation of a lithic industry raw material, Nuclear Instruments and Methods B, in press.
Poupeau G., Saddiqi O., Michard A., Oberh‰nsli R. and GoffÈ B. (1998) Late thermal evolution of the Oman Mountains sub-ophiolitic windows : apatite fission track thermochronology, Geology, in press.
ED. NOTE: Submissions for this section were a bit thin, so Osamu Himeno graciously volunteered to compile a list of recent (Jan. to Oct. 1998) fission track papers for inclusion in this issue.
A list of recent fission track papers:
A list of papers published from January to October, 1998, located by a Georef search using the key-word ‘fission track’
Compiled by: Osamu Himeno,
Dept. of Mining Eng., Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan,
Current Address: Fission Track Research Lab., Department of Earth Sciences
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 3J5
Arne, D.C., Zentilli, M., Grist, A.M. Collins, M., 1998. Constraints on the timing of thrusting during the Eurekan Orogeny, Canadian Arctic Archipelago; an integrated approach to thermal history analysis. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences = Journal Canadien des Sciences de la Terre. 35, 1, 30-38.
Bhandari, N., Murty-S,V.S., Suthar, K.M., Shukla, A.D., Ballabh, G.M., Sisodia, M.S., Vaya, V.K., 1998. The orbit and exposure history of the Piplia Kalan eucrite. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. 33, 3, 455 - 461.
Brandon, M.T., Roden-Tice, M. K., Garver, J.I., 1998. Late Cenozoic exhumation of the Cascadia accretionary wedge in the Olympic Mountains, Northwest Washington State. Geological Society of America Bulletin. 110, 8, 985-1009.
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Call for Contributions to the May/June 1999 On Track issue 18
The next issue of On Track is scheduled for release in late May/June, 1999 and we are looking for contributions. On Track welcomes contributions of virtually any kind, including news, gossip, job openings, descriptions of new lab techniques, reviews of useful products, raving editorials about what all the other labs are doing wrong, meeting announcements, cartoons, and descriptions of what you are doing in your research.
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Aizawa, Minoru
Dept. of Geology
Imperial College
Prince Consort Road
London SW7 2BP, UK
Tel.: +44 (0) 171-594-6468
Fax: +44 (0) 171-594-6464
E: m.aizawa@ic.ac.uk
Andriessen, Paul A.M.
Laboratorium voor Isotopen Geologie
Faculteit der Aardwetenschappen
Vrije Universiteit de Boelelaan 1085
1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Arne, Dennis C.
Dept. of Geology
Univ. of Ballarat, P.O. Box 663
Ballarat, VIC 3352, Australia
Tel.: 61-53-279-290,
Fax: 61-53-279-144
E: D.Arne@ballarat.edu.au
Bal, K. D.
Fission Track Laboratory
KDM Institute of Petrol. Exploration
Oil and Natural Gas Corporation
Dehradun, India.
Baldwin, Suzanne
Dept. of Geosciences
Univ. of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
Balestrieri, Maria Laura
Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra
via S. Maria, 53
56126 Pisa, Italy
Barbero, Luis
Dpto Geologia
Facultad de Ciencias del Mar
Universidad de Cadiz
1150 Puerto Real, Cadiz
Spain
Tel.: int-34-956-470824
Fax: int-34-956-470864
Belton, Dave X.
Department of Earth Sciences
La Trobe University
Bundoora, VIC 3083, Australia
Tel.: 61-3-479-2630
Fax: 61-3-479-1272
E: geodxb@luff.latrobe.edu.au
Bergman, Steven C.
ARCO Exploration & Production
2300 W. Plano Parkway
Plano, TX 75075-8499, USA
Tel.: 1-214-754-6264
Fax: 1-214-754-6807
E: BERGMAN@mail.arco.com
Bigazzi, Giulio
Instituto di Geochronologia e
Geochimica Isotopica,
CNR, via Cardinale Maffi, 36
56127 Pisa, Italy
Tel.: +39-50-560430/560110
Fax: +39-50-589008
Blythe, Ann E.
Dept. of Earth Sciences
Univ. of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 93106, USA
E: blythe@earth.usc.edu
Boettcher, Stefan S.
Dept. of Geological Sciences
Univ. of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78712, USA
Tel.: 1-512-471-8547
Fax: 1-512-471-9425
E: sboett@maestro.geo.utexas.edu
Bojar, Ana-Voica
Insitute für Geologie and
Paläontologie
Karl-Franzens Universität
Heinrichstraße 26
A-8010 Graz, Austria
Fax: 43-316-382885
Brandon, Mark T.
Dept. of Geology and
Geophysics,
Kline Geology Laboratory
P.O. Box 6666
Yale Univ.
New Haven, CT 06511, USA
Brix, Manfred R.
Ruhr-Universität Bochmum,
Fakultat fur, Geowissenschaften
Institu fur Geologie
Postfach 102148
Universitätsstraße 150
D-W 4630 Bochum 1, Germany
Tel.: +49-234-700-3236
Fax: +49-234-709-4179
Brown, Roderick W.
Department of Earth Sciences
La Trobe University
Bundoora, VIC 3083, Australia
Tel.: 61-3-479-1368
Fax: 61-3-479-1272
E: rod.brown@latrobe.edu.au
Brunel, Maurice
ISTEEM GGP laboratory CC 058
Universite Montpellier II
1 Place E. Bataillon
34095 Montpellier
Cedex,, France
E: brunel@dstu.univ-montp2.fr
Burchart, Jan
Institute of Geological Sciences
Polish Academy of Sciences
Zwirki i Wigury 93
02-089 Warsaw, Poland
Buck, Steve
Mobil North Sea Ltd.
Union Row
Aberdeen AB1 1SA, Scotland UK
E: spbuck@abz.mobil.com
Calmus, Thierry
Instituto de Geología
Estación Regional del Noroeste
Universidad Nacional Autonoma
de México
Apartado Postal 1039
Hermosillo, Sonora, 8300, Mexico
E: tcalmus@servidor.unam.mx
Carlson, William D.
Dept. of Geological Sciences
Univ. of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78712, USA
Tel.: 1-512-471-4770
Fax: 1-512-471-9425
E: wcarlson@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
Carpena, Joelle
DSD-SCS-LGCA
C.E.N. Cadarache
13108 Saint Paul lez Durance CDX,
France
Carpenter, Stephen B.
A505 Administration Bldg.
National Institute of Standards and
Technology,
Gaithersburg, MD 20841, USA
Carter, Andrew
Fission Track Research Group
Dept. of Geological Sciences
Univ. College London
London WC1E 6BT, UK
Tel.: (0)171-380-7777 ext 2418
Fax: (0)171-813-2802
E: a.carter@ucl.ac.uk
Cederbom, Charlotte
Institution of Geology
Earth Sciences Centre
S-413 81 Gothenburg, Sweden
Tel.: +46 31 773 2800
Fax: +46 31 773 2849
E: cederbom@geo.gu.se
Chambaudet, Alain
Universite de Franche-Comte
U.F.R. des Sciences et des
Techniques,
Laboratoire de Microanalyses
Nucleaires,
16 route de Gray
F-25030 Besancon Cedex, France
Clavero, Jorge
Sernageomin
Av. Sta. Maria 0104
Casilla 10465
Providencia, Santiago de Chile
Tel: (56-2) 737-5050
Fax: (56-2) 777-1906
E: JClavero@SERNAGEOMIN.cl
Coleman, Max
Research Inst. for Sedimentology
The Univ. of Reading
PO Box 227, Whiteknights
Reading, RG6 6AB, UK
Cloos, Mark
Dept. of Geological Sciences
Univ. of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78712, USA
Tel.: 1-512-471-4170,
Fax: 1-512-471-9425
E: cloos@maestro.geo.utexas.edu
Corrigan, Jeff D.
ARCO Exploration & Production
2300 W. Plano Parkway
Plano, TX 75075, USA
Tel.: 1-214-509-4090
E: dprjdc@arco.com
Coyle, David A.
Tensor Information Systems, USA
Home: 1102 New Dover Rd.
Apex, NC, 27502-7129, USA
Tel.: 1-919-303-6607
E: dcoyle@tensor.com
or: dcoyle@objectfarm.org
Crowley, Kevin, D.
Director
Board on Radioactive
Waste Management,
National Research Council
2101 Constitution Ave., N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20418, USA
Tel.: 1-202-334-3066,
Fax: 1-202-334-3077
E: kcrowley@nas.edu
Currie, Lisel
Institute of Sedimentary and
Petroleum Geology
3303-33rd St., NW
Calgary, Alberta, T2L 2A7, Canada
Tel.: 1-403-292-7004,
Fax: 1-403-292-4961
E: lcurrie@gsc.NRCan.gc.ca
Danahara, Tohro
Kyoto Fission-Track Co., Ltd.
44-4 Minamitajiri-cho, Kita-ku,
Kyoto 603, Japan
Tel.: +81-75-493-0684
Fax.: +81-75-493-0741
E: BYU02730@niftyserve.or.jp
De Corte, Frans
Institute for Nuclear Sciences
Univ. of Gent
Proeftuinstraat 86
B-9000 Gent, Belgium
Decker, John E.
ARCO International, Inc.
Jakarta, Indonesia
E: JDECKER1@mail.arco.com
De Wispelaere, Antoine
Institute for Nuclear Sciences
Univ. of Gent
Proeftuinstraat, 86
B-9000 Gent, Belgium
Tel.: +32-9-264-6627
Fax: +32-9-264-6699
E: antoine.dewispelaere@rug.ac.be
de Wit, M.C.J.
American Research Lab. (Pty) Ltd.
PO Box 106 Crown Mines 2025
Johannesburg, South Africa
Dodson, Martin H.
Dept. of Earth Sciences
Univ. of Leeds
Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
Dokka, Roy K.
Dept. of Geology
Louisiana State Univ.
Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA
Tel.: 1-504-388-2975
Donelick, Raymond A.
Donelick Analytical, Inc.
4819 Katy-Hockley Road
Katy, TX 77493-4826, USA
Tel.: 1-281-371-3346,
Fax: 1-281-371-0133
E: 72762.1465@compuserve.com
Dorighel, Olivier
Groupe de Geophysique Nucleaire
Univerite Joseph Fourier
Institut Dolomieu
15, Rue Maurice - Gignoux
38031 Grenoble Cedex, France
Duddy, Ian R.
Geotrack International Pty Ltd
37 Melville Road
West Brunswick
VIC 3055, Australia
Tel.: +61-3-9380-1077
Fax: +61-3-9380-1477
E: mail@geotrack.com.au
Dumitru, Trevor A.
Dept. of Geology,
Stanford Univ.
Stanford, CA 94305-2115, USA
Tel.: 1-415-725-1328,
Fax: 1-415-725-2199
E: trevor@pangea.stanford.edu
Duncan, Alasdair
BP Exploration
PG8G (2/4S W10)
301 St. Vincent Street
Glasgow, G2 5DD, Scotland, UK
Dunkl, Istvan
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Lab. for Geochem. Research, H- 1112, Budapest, Budaorsi ut 45, Hungary
Tel.: +36-1-185-1781,
Fax: +36-1-185-1781
E: h6580dun@ella.hu
Durrani, Saeed A.
School of Physics and Space
Research,
Univ. of Birmingham,
Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
Tel.: +44-21-414-4691/4655
Fax: +44-21-414-4693
Eby, G. Nelson
Dept. of Earth Sciences
Univ. of Massachusetts
Lowell, MA 01854, USA
Tel.: 1-508-934-3907
Fax: 1-508-934-3003
E: ebyn@woods.ulowell.edu
Evarts, Russ
U.S. Geological Survey, MS-999
345 Middlefield Road
Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
Fayon, Annia K.
Dept. of Geology and Geophysics
108 Pillsbury Hall
310 Pillsbury Dr SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Fax: 1-612-625-3819
E: fayon001@tc.umn.edu
Fisher, David E.
Dept. of Geological Sciences
Univ. of Miami
Miami, FL 33124-0401, USA
Tel.: 1-305-284-3254
Fax: 1-305-284-4258
Fitzgerald, Paul G.
Dept. of Geosciences
Univ. of Arizona,
Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
Tel.: 1-602-621-4052
Fax: 1-602-621-2672
E: kiwi@sapphire.geo.arizona.edu
Fleischer, Robert L.
Dept. of Geology
Union College
Schenectady, NY 12308, USA
Tel.: +1 (518) 388-6985
Fax.: +1 (518) 388-6789
E: fleischr@union.edu
Foland, Sara S.
Amoco Production Company
1670 Broadway
P.O. Box 800
Denver, CO 80201, USA
Foster, David A.
Department of Earth Sciences
La Trobe University
Bundoora, VIC 3083, Australia
Tel.: 61-3-479-1516
Fax: 61-3-479-1272
E: D.Foster@latrobe.edu.au
Fugenschuh, Bernhard
Geologisches Institut
Univ. of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Galbraith, Rex F.
Dept. of Statistical Science
Univ. College, Gower Street
London, WC1E 6BT, UK
Tel.: +41-71-380-7192
Fax: +44-71-383-4703
E: rex@stats.ucl.ac.uk
Gallagher, Kerry.
Dept. of Geology
Imperial College,
London, SW7 2BT, UK
Tel: 0171-594-6424
Fax: 0171-594-6464
E: kerry@ic.ac.uk
Ganzawa, Yoshiro
Hokkaido Univ. of Education
1-2 Hachiman-cho
Hakodate, 040, Japan
Tel.: 81-0138-41-1121
Fax: 81-0138-42-3982
Garver, John I.
Dept. of Geology
Union College
Schenectady, NY 12308-2311, USA
Tel.: 1-518-388-6517,
Fax: 1-518-388-6789
E: garverj@union.edu
George, Pete
Dept. of Geological Sciences
Univ. of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78712, USA
Gibson, Helen
Geotrack International Pty Ltd
37 Melville Road
West Brunswick
VIC 3055, Australia
Tel.: +61-3-9380-1077
Fax: +61-3-9380-1477
E: mail@geotrack.com.au
Giegengack, Robert
Geology Dept.
Univ. of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6316, USA
Giger, Matthias
Dammweg 27
3604 Thun, Switzerland
Tel.: 0041-33-368-227
Giles, Melvin R.
EPT-HM
Volmerlaan 8
Risswijk, The Netherlands
E: gilesm@siep.shell.com
Glasmacher, Ulrich
Forschungsstell Archaometrie der
Heidelberger Akademie der
Wissenschaften
Max Planck Institut fur Kernphysik
Postfach 103980
69029 Heidelberg, Germany
Tel.: +49 (6221) 516-321
Fax.: +49 (6221) 516-633
E: Glasmach@goanna.mpi-hd.mpg.de
Gleadow, Andrew J. W.
Department of Earth Sciences
La Trobe University
Bundoora, VIC 3083, Australia
Tel.: 61-3-479-2649
Fax: 61-3-479-1272
E: A.Gleadow@latrobe.edu.au
Graefe, Kirsten
Institut fuer Geologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Sigwartstrasse 10
D-72076 Tuebingen, Germany
E: graefe@uni-tuebingen.de
Green, Paul F.
Geotrack International Pty Ltd
37 Melville Road
West Brunswick
VIC 3055, Australia
Tel.: +61-3-9380-1077
Fax: +61-3-9380-1477
E: mail@geotrack.com.au
Grist, Alexander
Dept. of Earth Sciences
Dalhousie Univ.
Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 3J5, Canada
Tel.: 1-902-494-2372
Fax: 1-902-494-6889
E: agrist@is.dal.ca
Grivet, Manuel
Universite de Franche-Comte
U.F.R. des Sciences et des Techniques
Laboratoire de Microanalyses
Nucleaires
16, route de Gray
F-25030 Besancon Cedex, France
Guglielmetti, Alessandra
Instituto di Fisica Generale Applicata
Via Celoria 15
20133 Milano, Italy
E: guglielmetti@mi.infn.it
Gunnell, Yanni
Laboratoire de Geographie Physique,
URA, 1562, CNRS,
Univesité Blaise-Pascal,
29 Bvd. Gergovia, 63037,
Clermont Ferrand, CEDEX 1, France
Hadler, Julio C.
Instituto de Fisica "Gleb Wataghin"
Universidade Estadual de Campinas
UNICAMP, Campinas, SP, Brazil
Caixa Postal 6165
CEP 13083-970
Tel.: 55-19-788-5522
Fax: 55-19-788-5512
Hansen, Kirsten
Geological Institute
Oster Volgrade 10, DK-1350
Kobenhavn K, Denmark
Tel.: (home) 45-31-42-18-94
Fax: 45-33-14-84-33
E: kirstenh@geo.geol.ku.dk
Harman, Rebecca
Department of Geology
Imperial College,
London, SW7 2BT.UK
Tel.: (0171) 589-5111 ext. 56411
E: r.harman@ic.ac.uk
Harrison, Mark T.
Dept. of Earth and Space Sciences
Univ. of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
Hasebe, Noriko
Dept. of Science for Natural
Environment
Division of Physical Sciences
Kanazawa University
Kanazawa 920-1192, Japan
Tel. 81-76-264-5727
Fax: 81-76-264-5746
E: hasebe@kenroku.ipc.kanazawa- u.ac.jp
Hashemi-Nezhad, S.R.
Dept. of Physics
Tabriz Univ.
Tabriz, Iran
Hayashi, Masao
Kyushu Sangyo Univ.
Fukuoka 813, Japan
Tel.: 092-673-5883,
Fax: 092-673-5899
Hegarty, Kerry A.
Geotrack International Pty Ltd
37 Melville Road
West Brunswick
VIC 3055, Australia
Tel.: +61-3-9380-1077
Fax: +61-3-9380-1477
E: mail@geotrack.com.au
Hejl, Ewald R.
Institut fur Geologie und
Palaontologie
Universitat Salzburg,
Hellbrunnerstraße 34/III
A-5020 Salzburg, Austria
Tel.: + 43-662-8044-5437/5400
Fax: + 43-662-8044-621
E: ewald.hejl@sbg.ac.at
Hill, Kevin C.
Department of Earth Sciences
La Trobe University
Bundoora, VIC 3083, Australia
Tel.: 61-3-479-1273
Fax: 61-3-479-1272
E: K.Hill@latrobe.edu.au
Himeno, Osamu
Dept. of Mining Eng
Kyyushu Univerity
Hakozaki, Fukuuka 812-81, Japan
Tel.: 092-642-3635
E: himeno@mine.kyushu-u.ac.jp
Honda, Teruyyki
Atomic Energy Research Laboratory
Musashi Institute of Technology
Kawasaki 215, Japan
Hulver, Michael L.
Dept. of the Geophysical Sciences
Univ. of Chicago
5735 S. Ellis Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
Hungerbuhler, Dominik
Dept. Erdwissenschaften
ETH-Zentrum
CH-8092, Zurich, Switzerland
Hurford, Anthony J.
Research School of Geological Sciences
Univ. and Birbeck Colleges,
London WC1E 6BT, UK
Tel.: +41-71-380-7704
Fax: +44-71-388-7614
E: t.hurford@ucl.ac.uk
Iriarte, Sergio
Sernageomin
Av. Sta. Maria 0104
Casilla 10465
Providencia, Santiago de Chile
Tel: (56-2) 737-5050
Fax: (56-2) 777-1906
E: SIriarte@SERNAGEOMIN.cl
Issler, Dale R.
Geological Survey of Canada
Institute of Sedimentary and
Petroleum Geology
3303-33rd St., NW
Calgary, Alberta, T2L 2A7, Canada
Tel.: 1-403-292-7172,
Fax: 1-403-292-5377
E: dissler@gsc.nrcan.gc.ca
Ito, Hisatoshi
Central Research Institute of
Electric Power Industry (CRIEPI)
1646 Abiko, Abiko city,
Chiba, 270-1194, Japan
Tel.: 81-471-82-1181 ext 8525
Fax: 81-471-83-3182
E: ito_hisa@criepi.denken.or.jp
Iwano, Hideki
Kyoto Fission-Track Co., Ltd.
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Fachbereich 5, Geowissenschaften
Universitaet Bremen Postfach 330440
28334 Bremen, Germany
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Johnson, Kit
Fission Track Research Group
Dept. of Geological Sciences
Univ. College London
London WC1E 6BT, UK
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Jolivet, Marc
ISTEEM GGP laboratory CC 058
Universite Montpellier II
1 Place E. Bataillon
34095 Montpellier
Cedex,, France
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Jonkheere, Raymond
Particle-track-dating Laboratory,
Max Planck Institut fur Kernphysik
D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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Kamp, Peter J.
Dept. of Earth Sciences
Univ. of Waikato
Hamilton 2001, New Zealand
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Department of Earth and Envir. Sciences
New Mexico Tech
Soccoro, NM 87544, USA
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Department of Earth Sciences
La Trobe University
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Ketcham, Richard
Dept. of Geological Sciences
Univ. of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78712, USA
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Dept. of Science Education
Taegu Natl’ Univ. of Education
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Department of Earth Sciences
La Trobe University
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Koshimizu, Satoshi
Yamanashi Institute of
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Kowallis, Bart Joseph
Dept. of Geology
Brigham Young Univ.
Provo, UT 84602, USA
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Autoscan Systems Pty. ltd.
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Dept. of Geophysics
Kurukshetra Univ.
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Laslett, Geoff
CSIRO Mathematical and
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Robertson Research Int. Ltd.
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Lisker, Frank
FB5 - Geowissenschaften
Universitaet Bremen
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Lutz, Timothy M.
Dept of Geology and Astronomy
West Chester University
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Mahon, Keith I.
Exxon Production Research
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Dept. of Geology,
University of Chile
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Hohrere technische Bundeslehr-
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Märk, T. D.
Abt. f. Kernphysik u. Gaselektronik
Institut f. Experimentalphysik
Leopold Franzens Universität
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Marshallsea, Susan
Geotrack International Pty Ltd
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Himeji Institute of Technology
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Exxon Production Research
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CANMET, Mineral Technology
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Dept. of Geology, Stanford Univ.
Stanford, CA 94305-2115, USA
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Department of Earth Sciences
La Trobe University
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Geotrack International Pty Ltd
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Dept. of Geological Science
State Univ. of New York
Albany, NY 12222, USA
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Escuela de Geologia
Minas y Geofisica
Facultad de Ingenieria
Universidad Central de Venezuela
Caracas, Venezuela
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Dept. of Geology and Geophysics
Univ. of Wyoming
Laramie, WY 82071, USA
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U.S. Geological Survey
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Dept. of Geology and Mineralogy
Kyoto Univ.
Kyoto 606, Japan
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Noble, Wayne P.
Department of Earth Sciences
La Trobe University
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Oddone, Massimo
Dipartimento di Chimica Generale
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Ohira, Hiroto
Dept. of Geoscience,
Shimane Univ.,
Matsue 690, Japan
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Olesch, Martin
Univ. Bremen
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Geology Dept.
Univ. of Pennsylvania
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Hokkaido University
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Department of Earth Sciences
La Trobe University
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Universiti de Paris XI — ORSAYTERRE Bbt. 504
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Dept. of Geological Sciences
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Dept. of Geological Sciences
Univ. of SUNY at Albany
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Geological Survey of Iran,
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Dept. of Chemistry
Arizona State Univ.
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Dept. of Geology and Geophysics
Rice University., MS-126
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Bullard Lab.
Dept. of Earth Sciences
Univ. of Cambridge
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Universite Joseph Fourier
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Dept. of Physics
Univ. of California
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Univ. of Freiburg
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Institut fuer Geologie
Universitaet Wuerzburg,
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Univ. of Massachusetts
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Department of Earth Sciences
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Universite de Franche-Comte
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Dept. of Physics
Guru Nanak Univ.
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Universitaet Bremen Fachbereich
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Universitaet Tuebingen
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Geology Institute
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Fission Track Research Group
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Dept. of Physics
Guru Nank Dev Univ.
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Institut fuer Geowissenschaften
Universität Potsdam
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Arizona State Univ.
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Vrije Universiteit
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Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
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Geological Survey of Canada
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Museum d'histoire naturelle
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Arizona State Univ.
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Dept. of Geography
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Univ. of Edinburgh
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Rikkyo Univ.
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Dept. of Geology and Mineralogy
Kyoto Univ.
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Institut für Geologie
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Universidad EAFIT
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Univ. College London
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Dept. of Geological Sciences
Univ. of Washington
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Geologisch Instituut
Rijiks Universiteit
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Institue for Earth Science
Vrije Universiteit
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Dipartimento di Scienze Geologiche
Universita di Bologna
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Geologisch Instituut
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Geologisches Institut
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Dept. of Physics
Guru Nanak Dev Univ.
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Wadatsumi, Kiyoshi
Dept. of Geosciences
Osaka City Univ.
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Wagner, Gunther A.
Max-Planck-Institut fur Kernphysik
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Institut fur Petrographie und Geochimie
Universität Karlsruhe
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University of Alaska
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Dept. of Geology
Univ. of Kansas
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Fission Track Laboratory
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Dept. of Mining
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Kyushu Univ.,
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Dept. of Geological Sciences
Univ. of Texas at Austin
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Dept. of Geology
Univ. of Toronto
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Pennsylvania State University
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ARCO Exploration & Production
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Kyoto Fission-Track Co., Ltd.
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Physics Dept.
Cukurova Univ.
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Kyoto Fission-Track Co., Ltd.
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Dipartimento di Scienze Geologiche
Universita di Bologna
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40127 Bologna, Italy
Tel: +39-51-354579
Fax: +39-51-354522
E: zattin@geomin.unibo.it
Zhao, Yunlong
Beijing Research Institute of
Uranium Geology
P.O. Box 764
Beijing 100029, PR China
Zeitler, Peter K.
Dept. of Earth & Environ. Sciences
Lehigh Univ.
Bethlehem, PA 18015, USA
Tel.: 1-215-758-3671
Fax: 1-215-758-3677
E: pkz0@lehigh.edu
Zentilli, Marcos,
Dept. of Earth Sciences
Dalhousie Univ.
Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 3J5, Canada
Tel.: 1-902-494-3873
Fax: 1-902-494-6889
E: zentilli@ac.dal.ca
Zhou, Zuyi
Dept. of Marine Geology and Geophysics,
Tongji University
1239 Siping Road 200092 Shanghai, China
Tel.: 0086-21-65982358
Fax: 0086-21-65026278
E: zzydmg@tju.ihep.ac.cn
Zimmerman, Robert Allen
U.S. Geological Survey, MS 905
Box 25046, Federal Center
Denver, CO 80225, USA
Tel.: 1-303-236-5626,
Fax: 1-303-236-5603
E: rzimm@greenwood.ct.usgs.gov.internet
Zuffa, Gian G.
Dipartimento di Scienze Geologiche
Universita di Bologna
via Zamboni 67
40127 Bologna, Italy
Tel.: 39-51-354536
Fax: +39-51-354522
Automated microscope stage systems greatly increase operator productivity by automating tedious aspects of microscope work. Since their introduction, our systems have been adopted by far more fission track laboratories than any other system.
Outstanding Hardware:
Our stage systems are based on a highly-reliable, high-precision Kinetek™ computer-automated microscope scanning stage. Several hundred Kinetek stages are currently in operation, mainly in the microelectronics industry. Compatible with almost any brand of microscope. Use of this popular, general purpose stage significantly reduces the system cost. System also includes a high-quality Calcomp™ 12x12" digitizing tablet. Assembly to full operational status generally requires only a few days.
Outstanding Software:
Software is a complete, highly sophisticated Apple Macintosh program developed with careful attention to all aspects of microscope work. Fully integrates track counting, track length measurement, slide scanning, and file management functions. Moves precisely from grain to mica print in 3 seconds. Very user friendly. Fully functional with a new Macintosh or a very inexpensive old Macintosh, and with MS-Windows compatible Macintoshes.
Innovative, Highly-Intuitive Stage Control System:
Stage is driven primarily with the digitizing tablet cursor rather than a joystick. For example, to center a grain or track, just superimpose the cursor on it, push a button, and the stage automatically centers it. This avoids tedious manual centering via the joystick. Most software commands are driven from the cursor buttons, which are easily distinguished by feel, so there is no need to look away from the eyepieces to the computer screen or keyboard.
Fission Track Laboratories Using the System:
•Stanford University, Stanford, California, installed in 1991
•University of California, Santa Barbara, California, installed in 1992
•ARCO Exploration and Production Technology, Plano, Texas, installed in 1992
•Universität Bremen, Bremen, Germany, installed in 1993
•E.T.H., Zürich, Switzerland, installed in 1993 using a preexisting stage
•Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, installed in 1993
•University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, installed in 1993
•University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, installed in 1993
•Max-Planck-Institut, Heidelberg, Germany, installed in 1993 using a preexisting stage
•Union College, Schenectady, New York, installed in 1994
•Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, installed in 1994 using a new Zeiss stage
•La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, installed in 1994 using two new Zeiss stages
•University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, installed in 1995
•Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, installed in 1995
•Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela, installed in 1995
•Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, installed in 1995
•Central Research Institute of the Electric Power Industry, Chiba, Japan, installed in 1995
•Universität Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria, installed in 1996
•University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, installed in 1996
•E.T.H., Zürich, Switzerland, second system installed in 1996 using a preexisting stage
•Geologisk Centralinstitut, Copenhagen, Denmark, installed in 1996 using a preexisting stage
•University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand, installed in 1996 using a preexisting stage
•Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy, installed in 1997
•Centro di Studio di Geologia dell'Appenno e delle Catene Perimediterranee, Florence, Italy, installed in 1997
•University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, second system installed in 1997
•Universität Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany, installed in 1997
•Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, installed in 1998
•E.T.H., Zürich, Switzerland, third system installed in 1998
•Universität Basel, Basel, Switzerland, installed in 1998
•University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, installed in 1998
•Universite Paris-XI, Paris, France, installed in 1998
Further Information:
An early version of the system is described in a paper in Nuclear Tracks and Radiation Measurements, vol. 21, p. 575-580, Oct. 1993. For detailed information please contact: Dr. Trevor Dumitru, 4100 Campana Drive, Palo Alto, California 94306, U.S.A., telephone (auto-switching voice and fax line): 1-650-725-6155
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Departments of Oceanography and Earth Sciences,
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Applications are invited for a tenure track assistant professor position in Tectonic Processes. The successful candidate will be appointed in both departments and will strengthen tectonics at Dalhousie by teaching undergraduate and graduate courses, supervising M.Sc. and Ph.D. students, and by developing and maintaining a vigorous externally funded research programme.
S/he will also be appointed a "Scholar" in the Earth System Evolution Programme (ESEP) of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIAR). Candidates should have an interest in quantitative interdisciplinary research in relationships between tectonic processes and Earth evolution. The successful candidate will have a record of achievement and assessed potential necessary to be appointed by CIAR. As a member of ESEP, the incumbent will be partly supported by CIAR and during this time will benefit from reduced teaching responsibilities and from association with an international network of researchers in earth system sciences.
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Department of Earth Sciences
Dalhousie University
Halifax, NS Canada, B3H 3J5
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Email: earth.sciences@dal.ca
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Applications will be considered as soon as they are complete, but will be accepted until March 31, 1999.
Dalhousie University is an employee Equity / Affirmative Action Employer. The University encourages applications from qualified women, Aboriginal peoples, racially visible people and persons with disability. In accordance with Canadian Immigration requirements, priority will be given to Canadian citizens and permanent residents.
CIAR Scholar and Assistant Professor in Tectonic Processes
The Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and Dalhousie University are committed to strengthen research at Dalhousie and in the Earth System Evolution program of CIAR through the appointment of a CIAR 'Scholar' (tenure track Assistant Professor) in Tectonic Processes. The appointment will be made jointly by the Oceanography and Earth Sciences Departments and be equally funded by CIAR and Dalhousie for the first five years, after which time Dalhousie will fully fund the position.
We are seeking a young earth scientist with proven abilities and outstanding potential. We anticipate that the successful applicant will complement Dalhousie's and ESEP's existing strengths and broaden our capabilities in the following manner.
EarthSciences and Oceanography at Dalhousie have established strengths in Oceanographic research (Physical, Biological, Chemical and Geological subdisciplines) and in Marine Geology and Geophysics, Geochronology (Argon-Argon, Fission Track and Luminescence laboratories), and Tectonics. In particular, Tectonics research encompasses aspects of structural, metamorphic and igneous geology, geodynamics, seismic crustal studies, geochronology, sedimentology and economic geology. We seek a person with expertise to complement and integrate across our existing tectonic strengths.
CIAR continues to support the Geodynamics Group at Dalhousie, which focuses on tectonic processes through the development and application of geodynamical computer models. These models include mantle-lithosphere interactions; crustal deformation and thermal evolution; the Earth's response to surface processes; and the formation of sedimentary basins and sedimentation within these basins. We seek a person with quantitative abilities who will contribute to the development and/or application of geodynamical models, will develop a complementary innovative research program, and will apply the results of this research to primary problems in tectonics.
The CIAR Earth System Evolution Program seeks an improved understanding of earth system interactions responsible for the development of the solid earth, hydrosphere, atmosphere and biosphere. Tectonic processes, mantle dynamics and their consequences for the Earth's surface are held to be key components in the Earth System. The CIAR-ESEP network brings together an internationally respected group of scientists. The existing focal points in geochemistry and geodynamics will be broadened to include among other fields, paleoclimatology, paleogeography, paleobiology, tectonics and surficial processes. The Dalhousie 'Scholar' will strengthen the tectonics component of the program directly and the ESEP program as a whole by developing research that leads to improved understanding of the impact of tectonics on other components of the Earth System.
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