Innovations in (U–Th)/He, fission track, and trapped charge thermochronometry with applications to earthquakes, weathering, surface‐mantle connections, and the …

AK Ault, C Gautheron, GE King - Tectonics, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
A transformative advance in Earth science is the development of low‐temperature
thermochronometry to date Earth surface processes or quantify the thermal evolution of …

Mesoproterozoic burial of the Kaapvaal craton, southern Africa during Rodinia supercontinent assembly from (U-Th)/He thermochronology

JS Baughman, RM Flowers - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract We present THe and ZHe data for basement samples across the Kaapvaal craton to
investigate the cratonic burial and erosion history during the assembly and breakup of the …

Investigating the shallow to mid-depth (> 100–300 C) continental crust evolution with (U-Th)/He thermochronology: a review

C Gautheron, M Hueck, S Ternois, B Heller, S Schwartz… - Minerals, 2022 - mdpi.com
Quantifying geological processes has greatly benefited from the development and use of
thermochronometric methods over the last fifty years. Among them is the (U-Th)/He dating …

Early inception of the Laramide orogeny in southwestern Montana and northern Wyoming: Implications for models of flat‐slab subduction

B Carrapa, PG DeCelles… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Timing and distribution of magmatism, deformation, exhumation, and basin development
have been used to reconstruct the history of Laramide flat‐slab subduction under North …

Diachronous development of great unconformities before Neoproterozoic snowball Earth

RM Flowers, FA Macdonald… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
The Great Unconformity marks a major gap in the continental geological record, separating
Precambrian basement from Phanerozoic sedimentary rocks. However, the timing …

Implementation of an alpha damage annealing model for zircon (U‐Th)/He thermochronology with comparison to a zircon fission track annealing model

WR Guenthner - Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Radiation damage exerts a fundamental control on He diffusion in zircon, which manifests
as correlations between (U‐Th)/He date and effective uranium concentration. These …

“Inverted” zircon and apatite (U–Th)/He dates from the Front Range, Colorado: High-damage zircon as a low-temperature (< 50° C) thermochronometer

JE Johnson, RM Flowers, GB Baird… - Earth and Planetary …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Zircon (U–Th)/He (ZHe) data were acquired for 23 Proterozoic basement samples
from an E–W transect through the Colorado Front Range to evaluate whether metamict …

Thermochronology links denudation of the Great Unconformity surface to the supercontinent cycle and snowball Earth

MS DeLucia, WR Guenthner, S Marshak… - …, 2018 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The Great Unconformity (GU), a global erosion surface separating Precambrian and
Paleozoic rocks, represents∼ 100–1000 my of missing geologic time. The timing of erosion …

Thermal history modeling techniques and interpretation strategies: Applications using HeFTy

KE Murray, ALS Goddard, AL Abbey… - …, 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Advances in low-temperature thermochronology, and the wide range of geologic problems
that it is used to investigate, have prompted the routine use of thermal history (time …

Neoproterozoic of laurentia

FA Macdonald, WA Yonkee, RM Flowers… - 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Neoproterozoic to Cambrian isolation of Laurentia during the breakup of Rodinia was
associated with multiple large igneous provinces, protracted multiphase rifting, and variable …