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In this work four glasses proposed as reference materials for fission-track dating were investigated. Samples from various localities from southern Bohemia and Moravia have been studied in order to identify the Moldavite-bearing deposit(s) with negligible track annealing. The remaining three glasses, JAS-Gl (Japan), Roccastrada (Italy) and Macusanite (Peru) yield thermally lowered fission-track ages, and need application of correction techniques. Therefore, following the requirement that a standard should fulfil: ‘no corrections should be necessary in obtaining the fission-track age’, they should be excluded. However, we considered that their potentiality as reference materials was worthy to be investigated: accuracy may be greatly improved when various reference samples with characteristics similar to those of real samples are available. All these glasses yielded reproducible plateau ages in agreement with available independent ages. The factors computed using track densities corresponding to plateau age determinations are reciprocally well consistent and substantially agree with those of the FCT and Durango apatites, although the data suggest a slight systematical deviation. The Moldavites least affected by track annealing are those from the Jankov deposit (Middle Miocene): this glass appears the most convincing potential age standard among those studied here. In principle, the studied glasses form a very promising set of reference materials for standardisation of techniques, interlaboratory comparison and age calibration itself.
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Balestrieri, M.L. et al. (1998). Potential Glass Age Standards for Fission-Track Dating: An Overview. In: van den Haute, P., de Corte, F. (eds) Advances in Fission-Track Geochronology. Solid Earth Sciences Library, vol 10. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9133-1_18
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