A Constraining Thermal History of Basin Fission-track Technology

Fission-track(FT) thermochronology is a low-temperature dating technique utilizing the damage property produced by uranium fission decay.As the advanced researches of annealing behavior,and laboratory annealing models,this technique,especially apatite fission-track,has become an important measure to constrain the thermal history of sedimentary basin.Among three main apatite fission-track annealing models proposed by Laslett et al.(1987),Crowley et al.(1991) and Ketcham et al.(1999),respectively,the last one is the most significant and widely-applied annealing model,which integrated the influence of time,temperature and chemical composition to various types of apatite,together using the c-axis projected track-length and Dpar.This apatite multi-kinetic fission-track annealing model by Ketcham et al.(1999) can be applied well to make thermal modeling,describing the temperature-time relation in the development of basin.Zircon FT,(U-Th)/He,apatite(U-Th)/He,Ro value,surface temperature,and stratigraphic age are all as constraints for fission-track thermal modeling,while the HeFTy(2009) is an excellent software for reconstruction of low-temperature thermal history.