Abstract
Andradites and spessartines contain enough uranium to make these minerals interesting for fission track dating. Almandines and pyropes usually are not favourable.
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Haack, U.K., Gramse, M. Survey of garnets for fossil fission tracks. Contr. Mineral. and Petrol. 34, 258–260 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00373298
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