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The CHIME age calculation program provided here calculates the CHIME age (Suzuki and Adachi, 1991, 1994) with York's linear fitting procedure (York, 1966). Decay constants are obtained from Steiger and Jäger (1977). Details of this program is described in Kato et al., (1999).
The PDF file of Kato et al. (1999 online revision 3) is available from http://www.nendai.nagoya-u.ac.jp/media/paper/kato1999-4.pdf.
Please include papers described in the REFERENCE section in your publications that use results of this program.
Example
The CHIME (Suzuki and Adachi, 1991, 1994) age was calculated by the
computer program in Kato et al. (1999) with York (1966) method and decay
constants from Steiger and Jäger (1977).
There are two version of distributions. One is compiled on FreeBSD 2.2.8 box. It runs on both 2.2.8 and higher (including 3.x and current). If you use this version on FreeBSD 3.x and higher, you may need to install compat22 (c.f. FreeBSD project's page). Another is compiled on FreeBSD 3.4 box. It does not run on 2.2.8 nor earlier.
Following distributions are not well tested and will not be updated.
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Become root and type
pkg_add chime-1.0.tgz
You may have
Become root and type
pkg_add chime-1.0.tgz
You may have
Decode the BinHex format file, and you may find chime-carbon-1.0.smi file. Double click this smi file to mount, then the chime-1.0 folder will be appeared. In the chime-1.0 folder, you may find chime application, documents and sample files.
Note: This program requires the Cabon library (included in MacOS 9.2).
Data used by the program should be stored in a text file. Each line contains seven fields. Each fields should be separated by white space (e.g. space and tab) and each items should no be contain any white space.
| -t | shows Th-rich mineral mode. Use this option when you calculate the CHIME age of ThO2 rich mineral (e.g. monazite). |
| -u | show U-rich mineral mode. Use this option when you calculate the CHIME age of UO2 rich mineral (e.g. zircon). |
| -v | displays analysis results, apparent age and RO2* for each spot. |
| -f file | tells file for input. If this option is not set, the program read data from standard input. |
| -m | assumes that concentrations are of metals instead of oxides. Default is oxide mode. |
(The sample file is available from here. )
Since monazite is of ThO2 rich mineral, you must specify `-t' option.
% chime -t -f monazite
Number of data point: 14 MSWD=0.157437
Age / Ma = 253.156361 +/- 23.731568
inclination = 0.010694 +/- 0.001009
intercept = -0.000901 +/- 0.010499
(The sample file is available from here.)
Since zircon is of UO2 rich mineral, you must specify `-u' option.
Number of data point: 8 MSWD=0.071520
Age / Ma = 2035.680177 +/- 58.355947
inclination = 0.341159 +/- 0.012659
intercept = -0.002484 +/- 0.003832
Spot No. ThO2 Error UO2 Error PbO Error Age RO2*
Z209-1 0.0830 10.0 0.1860 10.0 0.0690 10.0 1994 0.2077
Z209-2 0.1550 10.0 0.1870 10.0 0.0770 10.0 2023 0.2275
Z209-3 0.1810 10.0 0.3140 5.0 0.1190 5.0 1980 0.3613
Z209-4 0.3020 5.0 0.3920 5.0 0.1590 5.0 2019 0.4709
Z209-5 0.1430 10.0 0.1120 10.0 0.0500 10.0 2005 0.1493
Z209-6 0.1880 10.0 0.3210 5.0 0.1210 5.0 1968 0.3701
Z209-7 0.0930 10.0 0.1630 5.0 0.0600 10.0 1936 0.1873
Z209-8 0.5440 5.0 0.3990 5.0 0.1860 5.0 2048 0.5411
Please include following papers in your publications that use results of this program.
