Thermochronology at Temperatures Higher than 150 °C

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the Special Issue “Thermochronology at Temperatures Higher Than 150 °C”, focused on applications of thermochronological tools and technique development.

Thermochronology uses radiometric methods to generate continuous thermal history paths for commonly occurring and accessory mineral groups, and thus it is a powerful method for investigating processes that modify mineral temperatures. Applications include tectonic studies, orogenesis, basin analysis, estimation of the exposure level of mineralized regions, and quantification of the timescales of landscape evolution. The majority of current thermochronological techniques are sensitive to temperatures lower than 150 °C, and these have been widely applied by geoscientists from a broad spectrum of disciplines. This Special Issue of Minerals invites contributions on the development and application of techniques that constrain thermal histories at T > 150 °C. These include the isotopic analyses of inert gases, as well as U–Pb and Sm–Nd analyses of various mineral phases. The purpose of this issue is to demonstrate the versatility of thermochronological methods in the Earth sciences by reviewing existing knowledge and collecting original research and data that advance analytical techniques.

Dr. Richard Spikings
Dr. Cécile Gautheron
Dr. David Chew
Guest Editors

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