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The fission-track method has been applied for decades to quantify rates and timing of processes in the shallow crust. The most widely used approach, the external detector method, involves counting fission-tracks, a decay product resulting from the spontaneous fission of 238 U, and a paired set of induced tracks (parent proxy) from the thermal neutron irradiation of 23 ...