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- Title: Fission-Track Thermochronoloy and its Application to Geology
- Author: Marco G. Malusà, Paul G. Fitzgerald Editors
- Publisher: Springer
- Pages: 395
This book Fission-Track Thermochronology and its Application to Geology edited by Marco G. Malusà and Paul G. Fitzgerald is the result of the efforts of many recognised scientists, including those who have had long and successful careers and those who are closer to the beginning of their careers. All authors have made contributions in improving our understanding of the application of fission-track analysis, plus other thermochronologic techniques to geologic problems. As a scientific community, we are fortunate that over the years there have been a number of books published on fission tracks, from Nuclear Tracks in Solids by Robert Fleischer, Buford Price and Robert Walker in 1975 to Fission-Track Dating by Günther Wagner and Peter van den Haute in 1992.
In the last decade or so, there have been a number of “thermochronology-themed” books, for example the 2004 Geological Society of America Special Paper 378 Detrital Thermochronology—Provenance Analysis, Exhumation and Landscape Evolution of Mountain Belts edited by Matthias Bernet and Cornelia Spiegel, the 2005 MSA Volume 58 on Low Temperature Thermochronology, Techniques, Interpretations and Applications edited by Peter Reiners and Todd Ehlers and the 2006 book on Quantitative Thermochronology. Numerical Methods for the Interpretation of Ther mochronological Data written by Jean Braun, Peter van der Beek and Geoff Batt. There have also been a number of excellent review papers such as Reiners and Brandon (2006) Using Thermochronology to Understand Orogenic Erosion in Annual Reviews of Earth and Plan etary Sciences Volume 34.
We have no wish to repeat the information in these earlier publications. This book focuses on the basics of applying thermochronology to geologic and tectonic problems, with the emphasis on fission-track thermochronology. Because of the complementary nature of different thermochronologic techniques, many other techniques are also discussed and concepts and approaches are often similar for all techniques, as comes out in the various chapters. The objective of this book was to aim for relatively concise review-type chapters that emphasise the basics, the concepts and the various approaches of applying thermochronology within a geologic framework.