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Geochronological Entropy, and Its Relevance to Age Measurements

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Subduction and Closure of the Palaeo-Asian Ocean along the Solonker Suture Zone: Constraints from an Integrated Sedimentary Provenance Analysis

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The maturity of geochronological techniques in recent years, e.g. (semi-)automated fission-track analysis [1] and laser-ablation systems [2], made large data sets more effectively available in shorter analyses times at an acceptable cost of precision and accuracy. Complex geological systems harbouring multiple age populations, typical in sedimentary provenance studies, instinctively require statistically robust large numbers of single geochronological analyses per sample in order to approximate the ideal age distribution.

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Eizenhöfer, P.R. (2020). Geochronological Entropy, and Its Relevance to Age Measurements. In: Subduction and Closure of the Palaeo-Asian Ocean along the Solonker Suture Zone: Constraints from an Integrated Sedimentary Provenance Analysis. Springer Theses. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9200-0_5

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