Track analysis

J. Toft and O.M. Kvalheim, Eigenstructure tracking analysis for revealing noise patterns and local rank in instrumental profiles application to transmittance and absorbance IR spectroscopy. Chemom. Intell. Lab. Syst., 19 (1993) 65-73. 

Durrani, S.A., Khan, H.A., Taj, M. and Renfrew, C. (1971). Obsidian source identification by fission track analysis. Nature 233 242-245. 

Archaeologists have long sought methods for obsidian characterization that were rapid, reliable, non-destructive, and low-cost. Among the various methods investigated were visual techniques (79), density measurements (20), magnetic properties (27), thermoluminescence (22), fission-track analysis (25), Mossbauer spectroscopy (24), and natural radioactivity (25). Although some of the methods occasionally identified differences between sources, the overlap between sources was such that their overall reliability was unsatisfactory. The most successful method of characterization for obsidian provenance research has been compositional analysis (26). 

Qian H, Sheetz MP, Elson EL (1991) Single particle tracking. Analysis of diffusion and flow in two-dimensional systems. Biophys J 60 910-921... 

Grove M, Harrison TM (1999) Monazite Th/Pb age-depth profiling. Geology 27 487-490 Hansen K, Reiners PW (2006) Low temperature thermochronology of the southern East Greenland continental margin Evidence from apatite (U-Th)/He and fission track analysis and implications for intermethod calibration. Iithos 92 117-136... 

For the investigation of meteorites various experimental methods are applied, in particular mass spectrometry, neutron activation analysis, measurement of natural radioactivity by low-level coimting and track analysis. The tracks can be caused by heavy ions in cosmic radiation, by fission products from spontaneous or neutron-induced fission and by recoil due to a decay. Etching techniques and measurement of the tracks give information about the time during which the meteorites have been in interstellar space as individual particles (irradiation age). 

Corrigan J. D. and Crowley K. D. (1992) Unroofing of the Himalayas a view from apatite fission-track analysis of Bengal Fan sediments. Geophys. Res. Lett. 19, 2345—2348. 

DeWolf C. P., Zeissler C. J., Halliday A. N., Mezger K., and Essene E. J. (1996) The role of inclusions in U-Pb and Sm-Nd garnet geochronology stepwise dissolution experiments and trace uranium mapping by fission track analysis. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 60, 121-134. 

Gallagher K., Brown R. L., and Johnson C. (1998) Fission track analysis and its application to geological problems. Ann. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci. 26, 519-572. 

Stiiwe K., White L., and Brown R. (1994) The influence of eroding topography on steady-state isotherms application to fission track analysis. Earth Planet. Sci Lett 124, 63-74. 

Tippett J. M. and Kamp P. J. J. (1993) Fission track analysis of late Cenozoic vertical kinematics of continental Pacific crust. South Island, New Zealand. J. Geophys. Res. 98, 16119-16148. 

Ellis, E.W. and Wall, T., Use of particle track analysis to measure fissile particle size distributions in contaminated soils. Nucl. Instrum. Meth., 200 (1982) 411. 

The identification of paleo anomalies in heat flow and geothermal gradients supports the identification of former hydrodynamic and migration conditions in a basin. Information on paleotemperatures can be derived from fluid inclusion data (Roedder, 1984), apatite fission track analysis, biomarkers and vitrinite reflectance data (Allen and Allen, 1990 Naeser and McCulloh, 1989). 

Field observations were conducted to obtain data on coral distributions, sea temperature, sea salinity, wind speed, and river flow rate. The observed data were then used in ocean and wave model numerical simulations and soil particle tracking analysis to obtain the spatial and temporal distributions of wave height and the numbers of soil particles. Our results showed that the life forms, sizes, and species of corals significantly varied depending on their locations in the bay, because the physical variables differed significantly among these locations. 

This study [18] attempts to clarify these relationships in the corals of Amitori Bay, Iriomote Island, Japan, by observing the ocean, atmosphere, and rivers, which is performed through numerical simulation using ocean and wave models along with particle tracking analysis. 

The periods of oceanic simulation (October 18-25, 2011) and soil grain tracking analysis (June 2-22 and November 1-21,2011) were considered to be in a normal state during these months at Iriomote Island. This was determined by comparison between observational data during the target periods and those for the most recent 33 years. 

Figure 8. a) Number of soil grains that reached the sea floor by the end of the period (0400 JST on October 25, 2011) calculated by the particle tracking analysis described in section 2.5 and coverage of (b) tabular coral and (c) branching coral at Stations 1-26. The sizes of grains counted in (a) were 1, 3, and 5 pm in diameter. The number of soil grains at Stations 17 and 18 in (a) were over 1000 (after [18]). 

Kawasaki, K. Murakami, T. Toda, K. Okubo, Y. (2008). Particle Tracking Analysis on Seawater Exchange and Soil Transport in Ise Bay Area at Tokai Heavy Rain, Annual Journal of Coastal Engineering, Vol. 55, pp. 986-990. (in Japanese with English abstract). 

Calibration of the thermal model is possible using present-day bottom-hole temperatures from exploration wells (Deming Chapman 1989) and by the comparison of modelled and measured vitrinite reflectance (see Section 5.7.3), an example of which is shown in Fig. 5.50. There are other measurements that can provide time-temperature constraints, such as fission-track analysis (Naeser 1993 Gleadow Brown 1999), homogenization temperatures of fluid inclusions (Roedder 1984) and clay transformations (Hoffman Hower 1979). 

Naeser N.D. (1993) Apatite fission-track analysis in sedimentary basins—a critical appraisal. In Basin Modeling Advances and Applications (ed. Dore A.G. et al.) Norwegian Petroleum Soc. Spec. Publn 3, 147—60.Amsterdam Elsevier. 

GEOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS OF APATITE FISSION TRACK ANALYSIS... 

Apatite fission track analysis has been applied to a broad range of geological problems (e g., Wagner and Van den haute 1992, Ravenhurst and Donelick 1992, Brown et al. 1994, Andriessen 1995, Gallagher et al. 1998, Gleadow and Brown 2000, Dumitru... 

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