fission-track dating

noun

the dating of samples of minerals by comparing the tracks in them by fission fragments of the uranium nuclei they contain, before and after irradiation by neutrons

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The researchers used two independent dating methods, apatite uranium-thorium-helium and fission-track dating, to determine cooling ages.

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