Volume 58 of Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry presents 22 chapters covering many of the
important modern aspects of thermochronology. The coverage of the chapters ranges widely
including historical perspective analytical techniques kinetics and calibrations modeling
approaches and interpretational methods. In general the chapters focus on intermediate- to
low-temperature thermochronometry though some chapters cover higher temperature methods such
as monazite U Pb closure profiles and the same theory and approaches used in low-temperature
thermochronometry are generally applicable to higher temperature systems. The widely used low-
to medium-temperature thermochronometric systems are reviewed in detail in these chapters but
while there are numerous chapters reviewing various aspects of the apatite (U-Th) He system
there is no chapter singularly devoted to it partly because of several previous reviews
recently published on this topic.
