Using our numeric model, we calculate the effect of the broad heat anomaly on the fission track ages as a function of distance from the fault.
If we were to sample along a profile tens of kilometers long, we would see a small but observable drop in the fission track age of samples. You can think of this plot as the fission track equivalent of the theoretical heat flow anomaly peaks from Lachenbruch and Sass. These sort of anomalies are not generally observed by the fission track community, but of course the data I showed you from the area directly adjacent to the fault wonít shed much light on this subject. Letís look at the effect that we should be able to see in our samples...
