Sample mount
DEMO
Apatite
Mount details
- Number of samples
- 3
- Year made
- 2026
- Made by
- Example person
- Affiliation
- University of Melbourne
- Mount format
- 25 mm round
- Resin / epoxy
- Struers EpoFix
- Minerals
- Apatite
- Polish
- 9, 3, 1 µm diamond; final 0.04 µm colloidal silica
- Etching
- 5.5 M HNO₃, 20 s at 21 °C
- Coating
- Carbon, ~20 nm
- Stored at
- Example lab, drawer 1
Samples
Notes
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Sample maps and images
Data files
EarthBank
Where the samples in this mount were collected. Click a marker for the EarthBank sample.
Jacinth-Ambrosia_ferruginous_induration (mount sample EX-001)
diagenetic iron oxides (and -hydroxides) form ferruginous indurations
- EarthBank ID
- 14915452
- IGSN / DOI
- 10.58056/AGCUE312C6BE
- Material
- Goethite · Rock (hand sample)
- Rock unit age
- 2.43–2.69 Ma
- Location
-
Jacinth-Ambrosia Mine, Australia
-30.9094, 132.2183 · map
Mine (open-pit) - Elevation
- 164.5 m
- Data package
- Dröllner et al. (2023)- Directly Dating Plio-Pleistocene Climate Change in the Terrestrial Record
- Data in EarthBank
- (U-Th)/He (3)
DF91-02 (mount sample EX-002)
- EarthBank ID
- 748265
- IGSN / DOI
- 10273/IEMTG01RZ
- Material
- Sandstone · Rock (hand sample)
- Rock unit age
- 410.0–434.0 Ma
- Location
-
Australia
-37.95, 142.767 · map
Outcrop location - Elevation
- 167.4 m
- Data package
- Australian Thermochronology - 2002 and prior
- Data in EarthBank
- Fission track (1), Thermal history (1)
- People
- DA Foster iD
- Archive
- University of Melbourne
Publications
- Kohn, B. P. and Gleadow, A. J. W. and Brown, R. W. and Gallagher, K., and O'Sullivan, P. B. and Foster, D. A. (2020) Australian-wide apatite fission track data compilation, PANGAEA · DOI
MM14-02 (mount sample EX-003)
- EarthBank ID
- 754281
- IGSN / DOI
- 10273/IEMTG02HM
- Material
- Adamellite · Rock (hand sample)
- Rock unit age
- 360.0–420.0 Ma
- Location
-
Australia
-36.60051, 149.34836 · map
Outcrop location - Elevation
- 1130.0 m
- Data package
- Australian Thermochronology - 2002 to 2022
- Data in EarthBank
- Fission track (1)
- People
- Malcolm McMillan iD, Malcolm McMillan iD
- Archive
- University of Melbourne
Publications
- McMillan, M and Gleadow, A and Kohn, B and Seiler, C (2020) Post Gondwana break‐up evolution of the SE Australia rifted margin revisited, Terra Nova · DOI
Data packages
Dröllner et al. (2023)- Directly Dating Plio-Pleistocene Climate Change in the Terrestrial Record
- Publication
- 10.1029/2023GL102928
- Institution
- Curtin University
- Samples in package
- 1
- Licence
- Creative Commons
Description
Directly Dating Plio-Pleistocene Climate Change in the Terrestrial Record https://doi. org/10.1029/2023GL102928 The reconstruction of Earth's climate record is typically founded on the physicochemical properties of marine sediments. Continental sediments that yield time-constrained climate information are rare, but important to interpret wider Earth system responses and the co-evolution of regional climate, landscape, and biota. This study presents direct dating of continental climate change on the Nullarbor Plain to constrain its development as an important biogeographic barrier driving spe…
Australian Thermochronology - 2002 and prior
- Dataset DOI
- 10.58024/AGUM46BD292F
- Publications
- 10.1594/PANGAEA.911861
10.1016/S0040-1951(02)00043-4
10.1046/j.1440-0952.2002.00942.x - Institution
- The University of Melbourne
- Samples in package
- 1779
- Licence
- Creative Commons
How to cite: Kohn, B, Gleadow, A, Brown, R, Gallagher, K, O'Sullivan, P, Foster, D, Boone, S, McMillan, M. (2025). Australian Thermochronology - 2002 and prior [Dataset]. The AuScope EarthBank Platform. https://doi.org/10.58024/AGUM46BD292F
Description
This dataset contains over 1,800 apatite fission-track (AFT) analyses derived primarily from Archaean to Palaeozoic igneous rocks and their metamorphic equivalents across the Australian continent from the 1970s to 2002. It includes detailed information on sample locations, lithologies, AFT age determinations, mean confined track length measurements and thermal history models. Originally reported by Kohn et al. (2002) and Gleadow et al. (2002), these data provide key insights into the low-temperature tectono-thermal evolution of Australia’s upper crust over the past ~300 million years. Parts o…
Australian Thermochronology - 2002 to 2022
- Dataset DOI
- 10.58024/AGUMCAD7B7CB
- Institution
- The University of Melbourne
- Samples in package
- 1321
How to cite: Boone, S, McMillan, M, Nixon, A, Chung, L, Seiler, C, Glorie, S, Kohn, B Gleadow, A. (2025). Australian Thermochronology - 2002 to 2022 [Dataset]. The AuScope EarthBank Platform. https://doi.org/10.58024/AGUMCAD7B7CB
Description
This compilation brings together apatite fission-track (AFT) and (U–Th)/He thermochronology data acquired between 2002 and 2022 from regions spanning Australia and Papua New Guinea, primarily from the University of Melbourne Thermochronology Laboratory. It integrates both published and previously unpublished results derived from diverse igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary lithologies. The dataset includes detailed sample metadata, lithological descriptions, fission-track ages and length distributions, (U–Th)/He age determinations, and digitised thermal history models. Collectively, these dat…
From AuScope EarthBank public data, updated 5 Nov 2026. Some EarthBank pages (such as data packages) may ask you to sign in.
Codes for this mount
Every code below holds the same address: HTTP://MNTS.AU/DEMO. Test a few on your phones at the size you plan to print before embedding them.
History
- EX-003 linked to EarthBank sample 754281 (MM14-02)
-
EX-003 linked to EarthBank sample 748266 (DF91-03)
Example person
Data uploaded to EarthBank, so the sample is now linked.
- Coated: Carbon, ~20 nm Example person
- Mount created with 3 samples (EX-001, EX-002, EX-003) Example person