Review of geothermochronological and thermobarometric techniques for the construction of cooling and exhumation curves or paths for intrusive igneous rocks
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cooling and exhumation curves or paths, geochronology, thermochronology, thermobarometry in igneous rocks
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The present study reviews radiometric and thermobarometric techniques used to construct cooling curves or paths to characterize intrusive bodies and to calculate cooling and exhumation rates. To construct these curves or paths, the temperature, time and depth variables must be estimated in intrusive bodies by applying various analytical techniques, including thermobarometry and U-Pb zircon, Ar-Ar hornblende and muscovite, fission track and (U-Th)/He zircon and apatite dating, in combination with a geological framework of reference for each intrusive body. The authors recommend to determine the crystallization age by zircon U-Pb dating, to quantify the emplacement depth using thermobarometry methods according to the composition of the intrusive body, to calculate the initial cooling ages with hornblende and muscovite Ar-Ar methods, as well as to calculate the cooling/exhumation ages in the upper crust using low-temperature thermochronology methods. These cooling curves or paths in intrusive bodies are highly relevant when studying compressive or extensional areas because they partly represent the thermal history of the era, thereby providing data on the magmatic and tectonic evolution of the region. Thus, these studies are highly important for designing geodynamic models and for their possible application in developing the tectonic model of the country.
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