supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (2012CB822000);a Special Project Grant of Chongqing People’s Government (QDBLR-2007-2015);the 2013 and 2015 Support Fund for Graduate Students’ Science and Technology Innovation from China University of Geosciences (Beijing), China (51223229)
In recent years the Lower Cretaceous red beds of southwestern China have yielded more than 20 significant dinosaur-dominated tracksites. More than half occur in the Jiaguan Formation with the remainder in the Feitians...
Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China
Ⅰ. INTRODUCTION When developing the technique of fission track dating, people found that the etching rates vary markedly with the crystallographic orientation of the etched surfaces so that the shapes of tracks are d...
Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China.
Although it is more difficult to reveal spontaneous fission tracks in zircon than in apatite by chemical etching, the obvious advantages of zircon for fission track dating, such as relatively high uranium content, goo...