Two pour points can be derived which can give an approximate temperature window depending on its thermal history.
Thus, although a crystallization age is not recorded, the information is still useful in constructing the thermal history of the rock.
Complicating factors include the purity of the starting material and the thermal history of the sample.
The technique has potential applications for detailing the thermal history of a deposit.
The geothermal modelling package has been used to model the thermal history of two basins in the Far East.
Data for calculating the thermal history more objectively do not yet seem to be available (but see Chadwick 1985a).
The thermal history expected in thrust belts seems favourable from this point of view.
In the first, the thermal history of a source rock is simulated by heating an immature sample for increasing time and/or temperature.
This value depends not only on the type of metal, but on its purity and thermal history.
It depends both on the clinker's mineral composition and its thermal history.