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LI Guangwei, CAI Dongxu, LI Xinwei, YANG Yifan, LI Xiaoya, HE Zhijun. 2025. Low-temperature thermochronology methodology and applications (Part 1). East China Geology, 46(2): 127-148. doi: 10.16788/j.hddz.32-1865/P.2024.12.007
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Low-temperature thermochronology methodology and applications (Part 1)
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Abstract
Low-temperature thermochronology methods refer to radiometric dating techniques with partial annealing/retention zones (closure temperatures) below 300 ℃. These methods can quantitatively determine the temperature history experienced by minerals/rocks in the upper crust during geological process, reconstruct the thermal evolution of geological bodies, hence have been widely applied in the fields of basic geology, ore geology, oil and gas basins, geomorphology, and planetary science. The main methods include fission track and (U-Th)/He dating techniques.This paper briefly reviews the development process, principles, experimental techniques, and basic data composition of the two dating methods, and discusses the factors affecting the accuracy of these dating methods as well as the research progress of the new low-temperature thermochronology methods. Low-temperature thermochronology data usually need to be combined with geological constraints and interpreted by numerical modeling, and in the final part of the article, we briefly describe the commonly used numerical simulation tools in thermochronology. The application of these methods can deepen our understanding on geological processes and geomorphic evolution.
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Figure 1.
Common low-temperature thermochronology methods and their closed temperature systems (Chew and Spikings, 2015; Jones et al., 2019; Malusà and Fitzgerald, 2019; Reiners et al., 2018)
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Figure 2.
Schematic formation model of fission tracks (238U or 235U) (a), (b) and apatite fission track microscopic photos under transmitted light（showing the semi and confined tracks） (c)
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Figure 3.
Schematic diagram of the experimental procedures for EDM and LA-ICP-MS fission track methods (modified from Kohn et al., 2024)
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Figure 4.
A comparison of ages obtained by EDM and LA-ICP-MS fission track methods (data sourced from Seiler et al. ,2023)
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Figure 5.
Plot of AFT age against chlorine concentration for apatite grains in samples from the Stillwater Complex, Montana, USA(a) (data sourced from Kohn et al., 2002) and plot of chlorine concentration against Dpar value for apatite grains (b)(data sourced from Donelick et al., 2005)
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Figure 6.
Polar plots showing annealing anisotropy of confined horizontal AFT lengths (modified from Donelick et al., 1999)
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Figure 7.
Radial plot of fission track age data (a) (Vermeesch, 2009) and histogram of apatite fission track length distribution (b)
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Figure 8.
Schematic diagrams of α particle ejection effect (a) and α particle implantation effect (b)
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Figure 9.
Apatite and zircon (U-Th)/He closure temperatures under different cooling rates (a) and single-grain apatite (U-Th)/He age vs grain-size (b) (Rsv: Radius of a sphere with equal surface area to volume ratio) (data sourced from Flowers et al., 2023b)
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Figure 10.
Single-grain (U-Th)/He ages of apatite with different [eU] contents (a) (data sourced from Flowers et al., 2023b) and zircon (U-Th)/He closure temperatures with different α doses (b) (Guenthner et al., 2013)
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Figure 11.
Thermal history inversion results based on low-temperature thermochronological data using HeFTy (a) and QTQt (b) softwares (data sourced from Li et al., 2017, samples collected from the Cretaceous forearc basin in Xigaze, South Xizang)
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Figure 12.
Inversion modelling of tectonic geomorphological evolution based on low-temperature thermochronology data using Pecube (data sourced from Cai et al., 2023)