380 resultados para 40Ar
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40Ar/39Ar analyses of tephra and clasts of volcanic rock provide age constraints for upper parts of the CRP-2A core. Single-crystal laser-fusion analyses of anorthoclase phenocrysts from three tephra-bearing layers yielded the most precise age constraints for CRP-2A. The dated tephra layers are: 1) a 2.7-m-thick interval of pumice and ash layers between 111.5 and 114.2 meters below sea floor (mbsf) (weighted mean age = 21.44 ± 0.05 Ma, +2.2); 2) a concentration of pumice near 193.4 mbsf (23.98 ± 0.13 Ma): and 3) a concentration of pumice near 280 mbsf (24,22 ± 0.03 Ma) (all ages are calibrated relative to Fish Canyon Tuff sanidine at 27.84 Ma). The 111 to 114 mbsf tephra is almost entirely non-reworked, and the 193 mbsf and 280 mbsf tephra concentrations are interpreted as being reworked and redeposited soon after eruption. All three of the tephra ages are therefore considered to be equivalent to depositional ages. The variation in precision of these three age determinations is largely a function of phenocryst size and abundance. The accuracy of these ages is equal to the accuracy of the current calibration of the 40Ar/39Ar methode (about ± 1 %). 40Ar/39Ar results from volcanic clasts provide three additional maximum age constraints for the CRP-2A core. Single-crystal laser-fusion of sanidine phenocrysts from a rhyolitic clast from 294 mbsf yielded a precise maximum depositional age of 24.98 ± 0.08 Ma, and plateau ages of groundmass concentrates from basaltic clasts near 36.02 mbsf and 125.92 mbsf yielded maximum depositional ages of 19.18 ± 0.12 Ma, and 22.56 ± 0.14 Ma, respectively. The 40Ar/39Ar data, in association with biostratigraphic, paleomagnetic, and isotopic age constraints for CRP-2A, confirm interpretation for rapid sedimentation rates in the 36 to 280 mbsf interval, particularly in the 193 to 280 mbsf interval where they support interpretations for sedimentation cycles spanning 100 k.y. intervals. In addition to the 19 to 25 Ma ages measured from thephra layers and clasts, provenance-related ages ranging from 150 to 450 Ma were determined from clasts and individual detrital or xenocrystic crystals from CRP-2A.
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Conventional K-Ar, 40Ar/39Ar total fusion, and 40Ar/39Ar incremental heating data on hawaiite and tholeiitic basalt samples from Ojin (Site 430), alkalic basalt samples from Nintoku (Site 432), and alkalic and tholeiitic basalt samples from Suiko (Site 433) seamounts in the Emperor Seamount chain give the following best ages for these volcanoes: Ojin = 55.2 ± 0.7 m.y., Nintoku = 56.2 ± 0.6 m.y., and Suiko = 64.7 ± 1.1 m.y. These new data bring to 27 the number of dated volcanoes in the Hawaiian-Emperor volcanic chain. The new dates prove that the age progression from Kilauea Volcano on Hawaii (0 m.y.) through the Hawaiian-Emperor bend (- 43 m.y.) to Koko Seamount (48.1 m.y.) in the southernmost Emperor Seamounts continues more than halfway up the Emperor chain to Suiko Seamount. The age versus distance data for the Hawaiian-Emperor chain are consistent with the kinematic hot-spot hypothesis, which predicts that the volcanoes are progressively older west and north away from the active volcanoes of Kilauea and Mauna Loa. The data are consistent with an average volcanic propagation velocity of either 8 cm/year from Suiko to Kilauea or of 6 cm/year from Suiko to Midway followed by a velocity of 9 cm/year from Midway to Kilauea, but it appears that the change in direction that formed the Hawaiian- Emperor bend probably was not accompanied by a major change in velocity.
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Voluminous (≥3·9 × 105 km3), prolonged (∼18 Myr) explosive silicic volcanism makes the mid-Tertiary Sierra Madre Occidental province of Mexico one of the largest intact silicic volcanic provinces known. Previous models have proposed an assimilation–fractional crystallization origin for the rhyolites involving closed-system fractional crystallization from crustally contaminated andesitic parental magmas, with <20% crustal contributions. The lack of isotopic variation among the lower crustal xenoliths inferred to represent the crustal contaminants and coeval Sierra Madre Occidental rhyolite and basaltic andesite to andesite volcanic rocks has constrained interpretations for larger crustal contributions. Here, we use zircon age populations as probes to assess crustal involvement in Sierra Madre Occidental silicic magmatism. Laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry analyses of zircons from rhyolitic ignimbrites from the northeastern and southwestern sectors of the province yield U–Pb ages that show significant age discrepancies of 1–4 Myr compared with previously determined K/Ar and 40Ar/39Ar ages from the same ignimbrites; the age differences are greater than the errors attributable to analytical uncertainty. Zircon xenocrysts with new overgrowths in the Late Eocene to earliest Oligocene rhyolite ignimbrites from the northeastern sector provide direct evidence for some involvement of Proterozoic crustal materials, and, potentially more importantly, the derivation of zircon from Mesozoic and Eocene age, isotopically primitive, subduction-related igneous basement. The youngest rhyolitic ignimbrites from the southwestern sector show even stronger evidence for inheritance in the age spectra, but lack old inherited zircon (i.e. Eocene or older). Instead, these Early Miocene ignimbrites are dominated by antecrystic zircons, representing >33 to ∼100% of the dated population; most antecrysts range in age between ∼20 and 32 Ma. A sub-population of the antecrystic zircons is chemically distinct in terms of their high U (>1000 ppm to 1·3 wt %) and heavy REE contents; these are not present in the Oligocene ignimbrites in the northeastern sector of the Sierra Madre Occidental. The combination of antecryst zircon U–Pb ages and chemistry suggests that much of the zircon in the youngest rhyolites was derived by remelting of partially molten to solidified igneous rocks formed during preceding phases of Sierra Madre Occidental volcanism. Strong Zr undersaturation, and estimations for very rapid dissolution rates of entrained zircons, preclude coeval mafic magmas being parental to the rhyolite magmas by a process of lower crustal assimilation followed by closed-system crystal fractionation as interpreted in previous studies of the Sierra Madre Occidental rhyolites. Mafic magmas were more probably important in providing a long-lived heat and material flux into the crust, resulting in the remelting and recycling of older crust and newly formed igneous materials related to Sierra Madre Occidental magmatism.
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The importance of supercontinents in our understanding of the geological evolution of the planet Earth has been recently emphasized. The role of paleomagnetism in reconstructing lithospheric blocks in their ancient paleopositions is vital. Paleomagnetism is the only quantitative tool for providing ancient latitudes and azimuthal orientations of continents. It also yields information of content of the geomagnetic field in the past. In order to obtain a continuous record on the positions of continents, dated intrusive rocks are required in temporal progression. This is not always possible due to pulse-like occurrences of dykes. In this work we demonstrate that studies of meteorite impact-related rocks may fill some gaps in the paleomagnetic record. This dissertation is based on paleomagnetic and rock magnetic data obtained from samples of the Jänisjärvi impact structure (Russian Karelia, most recent 40Ar-39Ar age of 682 Ma), the Salla diabase dyke (North Finland, U-Pb 1122 Ma), the Valaam monzodioritic sill (Russian Karelia, U-Pb 1458 Ma), and the Vredefort impact structure (South Africa, 2023 Ma). The paleomagnetic study of Jänisjärvi samples was made in order to obtain a pole for Baltica, which lacks paleomagnetic data from 750 to ca. 600 Ma. The position of Baltica at ca. 700 Ma is relevant in order to verify whether the supercontinent Rodinia was already fragmented. The paleomagnetic study of the Salla dyke was conducted to examine the position of Baltica at the onset of supercontinent Rodinia's formation. The virtual geomagnetic pole (VGP) from Salla dyke provides hints that the Mesoproterozoic Baltica - Laurentia unity in the Hudsonland (Columbia, Nuna) supercontinent assembly may have lasted until 1.12 Ga. Moreover, the new VGP of Salla dyke provides new constraint on the timing of the rotation of Baltica relative to Laurentia (e.g. Gower et al., 1990). A paleomagnetic study of the Valaam sill was carried out in order to shed light into the question of existence of Baltica-Laurentia unity in the supercontinent Hudsonland. Combined with results from dyke complex of the Lake Ladoga region (Schehrbakova et al., 2008) a new robust paleomagnetic pole for Baltica is obtained. This pole places Baltica on a latitude of 10°. This low latitude location is supported also by Mesoproterozoic 1.5 1.3 Ga red-bed sedimentation (for example the Satakunta sandstone). The Vredefort impactite samples provide a well dated (2.02 Ga) pole for the Kaapvaal Craton. Rock magnetic data reveal unusually high Koenigsberger ratios (Q values) in all studied lithologies of the Vredefort dome. The high Q values are now first time also seen in samples from the Johannesburg Dome (ca. 120 km away) where there is no impact evidence. Thus, a direct causative link of high Q values to the Vredefort impact event can be ruled out.
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The Palu Metamorphic Complex (PMC) is exposed in a late Cenozoic orogenic belt in NW Sulawesi, Indonesia. It is a composite terrane comprising a gneiss unit of Gondwana origin, a schist unit composed of meta-sediments deposited along the SE Sundaland margin in the Late Cretaceous and Early Tertiary, and one or more slivers of amphibolite with oceanic crust characteristics. The gneiss unit forms part of the West Sulawesi block underlying the northern and central sections of the Western Sulawesi Province. The presence of Late Triassic granitoids and recycled Proterozoic zircons in this unit combined with its isotopic signature suggests that the West Sulawesi block has its origin in the New Guinea margin from which it rifted in the late Mesozoic. It docked with Sundaland sometime during the Late Cretaceous. U–Th–Pb dating results for monazite suggest that another continental fragment may have collided with the Sundaland margin in the earliest Miocene. High-pressure (HP) and ultrahigh-pressure (UHP) rocks (granulite, peridotite, eclogite) are found as tectonic slices within the PMC, mostly along the Palu–Koro Fault Zone, a major strike-slip fault that cuts the complex. Mineralogical and textural features suggest that some of these rocks resided at depths of 60–120 km during a part of their histories. Thermochronological data (U–Th–Pb zircon and 40Ar/39Ar) from the metamorphic rocks indicate a latest Miocene to mid-Pliocene metamorphic event, which was accompanied by widespread granitoid magmatism and took place in an extensional tectonic setting. It caused recrystallization of, and new overgrowths on, pre-existing zircon crystals, and produced andalusite–cordierite–sillimanite–staurolite assemblages in pelitic protoliths, indicating HT–LP (Buchan-type) metamorphism. The PMC was exhumed as a core complex at moderate rates (c. 0.7–1.0 mm/yr) accompanied by rapid cooling in the Plio-Pleistocene. Some of the UHP rocks were transported to the surface at significantly higher rates (⩾16 mm/yr). The results of our study do not support recent plate tectonic reconstructions that propose a NW Australia margin origin for the West Sulawesi block (e.g. Hall et al., 2009).
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Os modelos para a formação de plútons alcalinos da Província Alcalina do Sudeste Brasileiro ou Alinhamento Poços de Caldas-Cabo Frio associam a gênese destas rochas a grandes reativações ou a passagem de uma pluma mantélica, registrada pelo traço de um hot spot. O objetivo desta tese é, apresentar novos dados e interpretações para contribuir com a melhor elucidação e discussão destes modelos. Os estudos incluem mapeamento, petrografia, litogeoquímica, geoquímica isotópica de Sr, Nd e Pb e datação 40Ar/39Ar. As intrusões selecionadas correspondem ao Morro Redondo, Mendanha e Morro de São João, no Rio de Janeiro, localizados em posições distintas no alinhamento Poços de Caldas-Cabo Frio. A intrusão alcalina do Morro Redondo é composta majoritariamente de nefelina sienitos e sienitos com nefelina, com rara ocorrência de rochas máficas e é caracterizada por uma suíte alcalina sódica insaturada em sílica, de caráter metaluminosa a peralcalina. Esta intrusão foi datada em aproximadamente 74 Ma (idade-platô 40Ar/39Ar). A intrusão alcalina do Mendanha é composta por diversos tipos de rochas sieníticas, além de brechas e estruturas subvulcânicas, como rochas piroclásticas e diques e caracteriza-se por ser uma suíte alcalina sódica saturada em sílica, de caráter metaluminosa, diferente do que ocorre no Marapicu, este subsaturado em sílica. Esta intrusão apresentou duas idades-platô 40Ar/39Ar distintas de magmatismo: 64 Ma para as rochas do Mendanha e 54 Ma em dique de lamprófiro, registrando magmatismo policíclico. O Morro do Marapicu foi datado em aproximadamente 80 Ma. Já a intrusão alcalina do Morro de São João possui uma ampla variedade de litotipos saturados a subsaturados em sílica, tais como sienitos, álcali-sienitos e monzossienitos (alguns portadores de pseudoleucita), com variedades melanocráticas, tais como malignitos e fergustios. Estas rochas definem suas distintas suítes alcalinas subsaturadas em sílica: Uma de composição sódica e outra potássica. Há também uma suíte alcalina saturada em sílica, definida por gabros alcalinos e shonkinitos. A petrogênese destas intrusões corresponde ao modelo de cristalização fracionada, com assimilação de rochas encaixantes (AFC) como indicado pela alta variabilidade de razões isotópicas de estrôncio. No Morro de São João é sugerido o modelo de mistura magmática. Estas intrusões foram geradas a partir de magmas mantélicos enriquecidos, possivelmente associados à antiga zona de subducção relacionada ao orógeno Ribeira. Em razão das novas idades obtidas, o modelo de hot spot proposto fica prejudicado, visto que o Marapicu é de idade mais antiga das intrusões analisadas, o que era esperado para o Morro Redondo. Alguns modelos projetam plumas mantélicas com aproximadamente 1000 km de diâmetro, o que poderia explicar o Mendanha ser contemporâneo ao Morro de São João. As assinaturas isotópicas obtidas para as intrusões não se associam à assinatura isotópica de Trindade e, caso o modelo de plumas mantélicas seja o correto, a pluma que teria maior semelhança de assinatura isotópica é a pluma de Tristão da Cunha.
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主要介绍了利用兰州重离子加速器提供的270 MeV的40Ar离子束轰击238U靶,通过熔合蒸发反应进行试合成Z=110附近的新同位素的实验情况。分析了目前关于超重核研究的现状并描述了这次实验的目的、可行性分析、实验装置以及实验过程等。本次实验仍然用氦喷嘴技术对产物进行传输,并用一套具有数对探测器组的转轮收集探测系统对产物进行收集和测量。
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采用固体核径迹探测器聚碳酸脂膜,测定了兰州重离子研究装置提供的55MeV/u40Ar和80MeV/u20Ne离子束经辐照终端束流均匀化扫描装置后照射野均匀度与离子通量之间的关系.结果表明:对于40Ar和20Ne离子束,离子通量小于1×106和2×107ions/cm2时,横向照射野均匀度缓Ne离子束照射慢增加;当离子通量分别介于1×106—1×107和2×107—1×108ions/cm2时,40Ar和20野均匀度逐渐增加;离子通量达到1×107和1×108ions/cm2时,40Ar和20Ne离子束照射野均匀度分别约为58%和61%.从而说明,辐照终端束流扫描装置对束流的均匀化程度目前并不能满足辐照生物效应、辐射育种和重离子治癌等研究工作的需要,须对其性能做进一步的提高.
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远离稳定线核素的性质研究是当前核物理和天体物理研究的热点之一,作为推进这一研究的重要工具,放射性束产生装置却由于对相关反应机制的缺乏了解,在应用过程中受到很大制约。因而前角区类弹碎片的产生机制研究对于放射性束产生装置的改进和实验设计具有重要的意义。 本论文工作利用兰州重离子加速器国家实验室的次级束流产生装置RIBLL,对57AMeV的40Ar束流在9Be和181Ta靶上反应产生的前角区类弹碎片进行了研究。通过磁刚度扫描方法,实验测量得到了Z>8核区近百种核素的动量分布和截面信息。 实验结果表明,在这一能区,碎片的高能部分主要来源于弹核碎裂过程,而在低能端,存在弹核碎裂和核子转移等其它过程的竞争。实验测量得到的碎片产生截面同EPAX2经验公式和AA模型计算相比较,在稳定线附近符合较好,但在远离稳定线区域,特别是丰质子区域,计算结果过高的估计了碎片截面。研究表明,在这一能区,碎片产生截面同弹核能量无关,但同靶核种类的关系不同于“factorization”假设的预计。 本工作对系统同位旋对碎片截面的影响也进行了研究,发现除弹核同位旋外,靶核同位旋对碎片同位素分布也有影响,这种影响随弹核能量的提高而减小。这是核子-核子作用截面的能量相关性等多种因素共同起作用的结果
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中能重离子碰撞中的核反应机制及其形成的高激发热核的性质是中能重离子物理研究的重要领域,而高激发热核性质的同位旋效应研究是这一领域的热点之一。选取了具有不同N亿比的反应体系以研究激发热核性质的同位旋效应。本论文涉及的反应系统三对共六个反应体系:55MeV/u~(40)Ar+~(58.64)Ni、30MeV/u~(40)Ar+~(112,124)Sn、35Mev/u~(36)Ar+~(112,124)Sn,这六个反应体系的N/z比分别为1.13,1.26、1.24,1.41、1.18,1.35。分别从带电粒子多重性、相对态布居核温度、关联函数等角度研究了这三对反应体系高激发热核性质的同位旋效应。在55MeV/u 40Ar+58,64Ni核反应中,用兰州4π带电粒子探测器阵列测量带电粒子多重性,研究了He和中等质量碎片的产额与反应系统的同位旋的关系,以及这种同位旋效应与反应系统的碰撞参数(即碰撞的激烈程度)、系统的激发能的变化关系。对两个反应系统,观察到带电粒子多重性中He的比分随带电粒子多重性的增加而增大,带电粒子多重性中IMF的比分随带电粒子多重性的增加而先增大,后减小的规律。两个反应系统虽然具有相同的核电荷数,但轻粒子He和中等质量碎片在多重性中的比分有明显的同位旋相关性。在30Mev/u40Sn、35MeV/u~(40)Ar~(112,124)Sn、35Mev/u 36Ar+112,124Sn反应中用13单元望远镜探测器阵列测量了小角关联粒子。由价a关联函数提取了30Mev/u 40Ar+112,12Sn反应系统中激发热核的态布居核温。对于不同同位旋反应系统舜UAr+112Sn和4VAr+124Sn,提取的相对杰布居核温度分别是4.18+0.28/0.21MEV和4.10士0.22/0.20MeV;考察态布居核温度和粒子能量的关薰时,观察到两个系统的发射温度均随着粒子能量的增加而降低,缺中子系统40Ar+l12Sn中由低能时的5.13士.30/0.26MEV降低到高能时的3.87士0.37/0.29MeV,丰中子系统40Ar+124Sn中由低能时的5.39士0.30/0.26MeV降低到高能时的3.32士MeV。讨论了这种布居态核温度的同位旋相关性。在35Mev/u 36Ar+112,124Sn反应中提取了洲F(3‘25)的约化速度关联函数。相对丰中子36Ar+124Sn系统的IMF关联函数在小约化速度处反关联程度更强,表明36Ai+124Sn系统的发射IMF的平均时间更短。用MENEKA程序提取了两个系统IMF的平均发射时间,36Ai+112sn反应中IMF的发射时间约为150fm/c,而36Ar十124Sn反应IME的发射时间稍短,约为120fm/c。以关联IMF的单核子总能量/动量为窗条件,发现低能IMF关联函数几乎没有差别,而高能IMF关联函数在小约化速度处的差别更为明显,表明两个系统IMF关联函数的同位旋效应可能来自于IMF的早期发射。为了得到进一步的信息,我们提取了高动量窗条件下的IMF发射时间,它们比平均发射时间短,36Ar+112Sn反应中高能IMF的发射时间约为100蒯c,而36Ai+124Sn反应中IMF的发射时间则更短,约为50fm/c。
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中等质量碎片(IMF)的发射是中能重离子碰撞的一大特点,且随着轰击能量的升高其产额迅速增加。通过测量30MeV/u 40Ar+natAg反应中出射的中等质量碎片,研究了高激发热核的发射机制、发射时标和时空演化规律。 对反应中发射碎片能谱的运动源拟合表明,前角区(11°—22°)中等质量碎片(IMF)来自于三种成分:类靶源、类弹源和中速源成分,其中类弹和中速成分占主导,关联测量的IMF能谱拟合得到,一个来自于类弹源而另一个来自于中速源成分的事件占有相当大的比例。 利用小相对角度内的两碎片关联测量,研究高激发核衰变中中等质量碎片的发射时标和寿命。IMF发射时间随能量的变化很大,从低能碎片的250 fm/c到高能粒子的100 fm/c,表明在此能量下,反应中出射的IMF主要来自于相继两体衰变。通过与其它实验的比较可知,随着束流能量的升高,IMF发射时间由相继两体衰变向多重碎裂过渡。 IMF时空演化研究表明,发射空间的大小对IMF关联函数的影响主要来自于发射源的核物质密度而几乎不依赖于发射源的质量数。
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本论文中重点研究了30MeV/u 40Ar+58Ni,64Ni和115In反应中中等质量碎片(IMF)的发射机制。实验中,测量了实验室系5°~140°角度范围内出射碎片的能谱和角分布。对前角区出射的IMF(3≤Z≤13)实现了同位素鉴别,对中后角区出射的碎片在低探测阈(<2MeV/u )的前提下实现了直到Z~30的元素鉴别。 用运动源模型对不同角度下出射的碎片能谱进行了分析和讨论,并结合角分布特征定性地研究了碎片的三个发射源。通过对各源的贡献随角度以及出射碎片电荷数Z的演化,观察到:类弹源主要发射的是那些前角区出射的、接近束流速度的高能碎片;中等速度源的发射是中角度区出射碎片和前角区低能碎片的主要来源;后角区出射的碎片则主要来自于类熔合源的发射。并观察到相对于类熔合源非平衡源更容易发射较轻的碎片。 通过对前角区出射IMF(3≤Z≤13)的能谱和同位素分布的分析,确定了那些基本保持束流速度的碎片主要来自于弹核碎裂过程。用各种模型对实验同位素分布进行了拟合,发现Sümmerer等人给出的经验公式和abrasion-ablation模型均能比较满意地拟合实验同位素分布的宽度和峰位。同时也观察到abrasion-ablation模型计算对奇Z元素的同位素分布能给出较好的拟合,但对偶Z元素的同位素分布,计算结果与实验值相比出现向丰中子方向的系统性偏移(~lamu)。另外,还着重研究了这些产物的靶核相关性问题。通过系统性分析以及同位旋相关的量子分子动力学(IQMD)模型计算,得出了弹核碎裂产物的靶核相关性是源于靶核表面中子与质子分布的不同和平均场及核子核子相互作用的同位旋效应相关。并且,通过计算还指出了靶核中子皮的厚度对于用弹核碎裂方法产生丰中子同位素的重要性。 通过用统计模型拟合后角区出射碎片的电荷分布,指出了这些碎片主要来自于非完全熔合过程中形成的复合系统的统计发射。 实验中观察到30MeV/u 40Ar轰击Ni和In靶在中角区出射的碎片的电荷分布有不同的特征。相对来说,前者更服从power-law,后者则倾向于服从指数规律。结合核态方程和QMD模型计算分析得出,在30MeV/u 的40Ar引起的反应中,对于弾靶质量接近对称的碰撞对所形成的系统,在一定的碰撞条件下可能已进入spinodal区,而非对称碰撞对的碰撞中压缩能还难以使得系统在膨胀时进入力学不稳定区。从而对观察到的实验现象进行了说明,并认为30MeV/u 40Ar轰击与其质量接近的靶核的反应中出射的碎片中已有相当数量的动力学发射成分的贡献。 利用实验中在前角区出射的接近束流速度的碎片的同位素产额提取了类弹源的温度参数。观察到直接由实验同位素产额比得到的表观核温度与所选择的同位素组合有较强烈的依赖关系,而与靶核和实验室探测角基本无关。利用M.B.Tsang等人给出的修正方法,提取了经边馈效应修正后的发射源温度。得到该温度值与反应靶、探测角以及用于提出温度的同位素组合没有明显的依赖关系,均为~4MeV。并用abrasion-ablation模型计算进行了讨论,得到在假定能级密度参数的倒数k=10MeV时,该温度值与abrasion-ablation模型计算是一致的。