Simulation and modelling of an argon age spectrum from a biotite in the Yilgarn Craton immediately adjacent to the Albany Fraser complex, Western Australia
Description
Datafiles for a paper published in the Journal of Structural Geology in 2025 entitled "Simulation and modelling of an argon age spectrum from biotite in the Yilgarn Craton immediately adjacent to the Albany–Fraser Orogen, Western Australia" by Gordon Lister, Marnie Forster, Laura Morrissey, Raphael Quentin de Gromard and David Kelsey. The supplement data is from a standard lab report on the measured argon data. URL #1 is output from the data reduction program in a form that can be assimilated by the eArgon program (available from the MacOS AppStore). URL #2t is an eArgon document file that can be double-clicked on MacOS systems to launch the eArgon program pre-loaded with the relevant data, allowing the user the same functionality as reported here. The remaining four datasets are MacArgon documents, which can be double-clicked to observe modelling of the observed age spectrum.
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Steps to reproduce
Sample taken, minerals separated, aliquot chosen for neutron irradiation, irradiated in the core of a fast neutron nuclear reactor, cooled and returned for measurement, measured using a ThermoFisher Argus VI using a gas extraction line connected to a resistance furnace, after each step in a sequence of heating episodes, Arrhenius data produced and analysed using the eArgon program, age spectrum modelled using the MacArgon program. Both of these programs can be downloaded from the Apple MacOS AppStore.
Institutions
- University of South Australia
- Australian National University
- University of Queensland