Peer-Reviewed Articles
1. Sears, D.W. and Mills, A.A. (1973) Temperature gradients and atmospheric
ablation rates for the Barwell meteorite.
Nature Physical Science, 242, 25-26.
2. Sears, D.W. and Mills, A.A. (1974) Thermoluminescence studies of the
Allende meteorite. Earth Planet
Sci. Lett., 22, 391-396.
3. Sears, D.W. and Mills, A.A. (1974) Thermoluminescence and the terrestrial
age of meteorites. Meteoritics,
9, 47-67.
4. Sears, D.W. and Mills, A.A. (1974) Existence of two groups in the
thermoluminescence of meteorites. Nature,
249, 234-235.
5. Sears, D.W. (1975) Thermoluminescence studies and the preatmospheric shape and
mass of the Estacado meteorite. Earth
Planet Sci. Lett., 26, 97-104.
6. Sears, D.W. (1975) Temperature gradients in meteorites produced by heating
during atmospheric passage. Mod.
Geol., 5, 155-164.
13. Mills, A.A., Sears, D.W. and Hearsey, R. (1977) Apparatus for the measurement of
thermoluminescence. J. Phys.
(E): Sci. Instrum., 10, 51-56.
15. Vaz, J.E. and Sears, D.W. (1977) Artificially induced thermoluminescence
gradients in stony meteorites. Meteoritics,12,
47-60.
16. Bagolia, C., Doshi, N., Lal, D. and Sears, D.W.
(1978) Preatmospheric size of the
Barwell meteorite: Cosmic ray
track, fusion crust and thermoluminescence studies. Nucl. Track Det., 2, 29-35.
17. McKeever, S.W.S. and Sears, D.W. (1978) Thermoluminescence and the terrestrial
age of the Estacado meteorite. Nature,
275, 629-630.
20. Sears, D.W. (1978) Thermoluminescence dating of meteorites. P.A.C.T. Journal, 2,
231-239.
21. McKeever, S.W.S. and Sears, D.W. (1979) Meteorites and thermoluminescence. Meteoritics, 14, 29-41.
22. Melcher, C.L. and Sears, D.W. (1979) The thermal stability of
thermoluminescence in meteorites. Meteoritics,
14, 249-253.
25. McKeever, S.W.S. and Sears, D.W. (1980) Natural thermoluminescence of
meteorites - A pointer to orbits? Mod.
Geol., 7, 137-145.
29. Sears, D.W. and Durrani, S.A. (1980) Thermoluminescence and the terrestrial
age of meteorites: Some recent
results. Earth Planet. Sci.
Lett., 46, 159-166.
51. Hasan, F.A., Keck, B.D., Hartmetz, C.P. and Sears,
D.W.G. (1986) Anomalous fading of
thermoluminescence in meteorites. J. Luminescence, 34, 327-335.
54. Sears, D.W.G. and Hasan, F.A. (1986) Thermoluminescence and Antarctic
meteorites. Proc. 2nd Workshop
on Antarctic Meteorites (J.O. Annexstad, L. Schultz, and H. Wanke, eds.),
83-100. LPI Technical Rept.
86-01. Lunar and Planetary
Institute, Houston.
56. Hasan, F.A., Haq, M. and Sears, D.W.G. (1987) Natural thermoluminescence levels in
meteorites, I: 23 meteorites of
known Al-26 content. Proc. 17th
Lunar and Planet. Sci. Conf., Part 2, J. Geophys. Res., 92, E703-E709.
68. Sears D.W.G., Hasan F.A., Myers B.M. and Sears H.
(1990) Comment on "Update on
terrestrial ages of Antarctic meteorites" by K. Nishiizumi, D. Elmore and
P.W. Kubik, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 99, 380-382.
72. Benoit, P.H., Sears, D.W.G. and McKeever, S.W.S. (1991) The natural thermoluminescence of
meteorites - II. Meteorite orbits and orbital evolution. Icarus 94,
311-325.
76. Sears, D.W.G., Benoit, P.H., Sears, H., Batchelor,
J.D. and Symes, S. (1991) The
natural thermoluminescence of meteorites: III. Lunar and basaltic meteorites. Geochim.
Cosmochim. Acta 55, 3167-3180.
79. Benoit, P.H., Sears, H. and Sears D.W.G. (1992) The natural thermoluminescence of
meteorites - IV: Ordinary chondrites at the Lewis Cliff ice field. J.
Geophys. Res. 97, 4629-4647.
81. Hasan F.A., Score R., Myers B.M., Sears H., Cassidy
W.A. and Sears D.W.G. (1992) Natural
thermoluminescence levels and the recovery location of Antarctic
meteorites. In Field and
Laboratory Investigations of Antarctic Meteorites Collected by United States
Expeditions, 1985-1987. (eds. U.B. Marvin and G.J. MacPherson), Smithson.
Contrib. Earth Sci. No. 30, 57-68.
85. Benoit P.H., Sears H. and Sears D.W.G. (1993) The natural thermoluminescence of meteorites
- V: Ordinary chondrites at the Allan Hills vicinity. J. Geophys. Res. 98, 1875-1888.
86. Benoit P.H., Jull A.J.T., Mckeever S.W.S. and Sears
D.W.G. (1993) The natural
thermoluminescence of meteorites VI:
Carbon-14, thermoluminescence and the terrestrial ages of meteorites. Meteoritics 28, 196-203.
87. Benoit P.H., Sears D.W.G. and McKeever S.W.S.
(1993) Natural thermoluminescence
and terrestrial ages of meteorites
from a variety of temperature regimes. Radiat. Detect. Dosimet. 47, 699-674.
91. Benoit P.H. and Sears D.W.G. (1994) A recent meteorite fall in Antarctic
with an unusual orbital history. Earth
Planet. Sci. Lett. 120, 463-471.
92. Benoit P.H., Roth J., Sears H. and Sears D.W.G.
(1994) The natural
thermoluminescence of meteorites 7:
Ordinary chondrites from the Elephant Moraine region, Antarctica. J. Geophys. Res. - Planets, 99,
2073-2085.
99. Benoit P. H. and Sears D. W. G. (1996) Rapid changes in the composition of the
meteorite flux: The irradiation,
orbital, and terrestrial history of Antarctic H chondrites and modern
falls. Meteorit. Planet. Sci.
31, 81-86.
100. Benoit P. H., Sears D. W. G. and Symes S. J. K.
(1996) The thermal and radiation
exposure history of lunar meteorites.
Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 31, 869-875.
106. Batchelor J. D., Symes S. J. K., Benoit P. H. and
Sears D. W. G. (1997)
Thermoluminescence constraints on the thermal and mixing history of
lunar surface materials and comparisons with basaltic meteorites. J. Geophys. Res. (Planets) 102,
19,321- 19,334.
107. Benoit P. H. and Sears D. W. G. (1997) Orbits of meteorites from Natural
TL. Icarus, 125,
281-287.
114. Ninagawa K., Hoshikawa Y., Kojima H., Matsunami S.,
Benoit P. H., and Sears D. W. G. (1998)
Thermoluminescence of Japanese Antarctic ordinary chondrite
collection. Antarct. Meteorit.
Res. 11, 1-17.
121 Benoit P. H. and Sears D. W. G. (1999) Accumulation mechanisms and the
weathering of Antarctic equilibrated ordinary chondrites. J. Geophys. Res. (Planets) 104,
14159-14168.
129 Ninagawa K.,
Soyama K., Ota M., Toyoda S., Imae N., Kojima H., Benoit P.H. and Sears D.W.G.
(2000) Thermoluminescence studies of ordinary chondrites in the Japanese Antarctic
meteorite collection, II: New measurements for thirty type 3 ordinary
chondrites. Antarct. Meteorit. Res. 13,
112- 120.
126 Akridge J.M.C., Benoit P.H., and Sears D.W.G. (2000)
Terrestrial age measurements using natural thermoluminscence of a drained zone
under the fusion crust of Antarctic ordinary chondrites, Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 35,
869-874.
127 Benoit P.H., Sears D.W.G., Akridge J.M.C., Bland
P.A., Berry F.J., and Pillinger C.T. (2000) The non-trivial problem of
meteorite pairing. Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 35, 393-417.
130. Akridge J.M.C., Benoit P.H., and Sears D.W.G.
(2001) Determination of trapping
parameters of the high temperature thermoluminescence peak in equilibrated
ordinary chondrites. Radiat.
Meas., 33, 109-117.
132. Ferko, T. E. ; Wang, M.-S. ;
Hillegonds, D. J. ; Lipschutz, M. E. ; Hutchison, R. ; Franke, L. ; Scherer, P.
; Schultz, L. ; Benoit, P. H. ; Sears, D. W. G. (2002) The irradiation history
of the Ghubara (L5) regolith breccia.
Meteoritics and Planetary Science 37, 311-328.
Abstracts and Extended
Abstracts
A7. Durrani, S.A., Bull, R.R., McKeever, S.W.S., Mold, P.
and Sears, D.W. (1979)
Thermoluminescence and charged particle track studies of individual
chondrules from the Alta'Ameen (LL5), Dhajala (H3) and Kirin (H5)
meteorites. Meteoritics, 14,
38 8-390.
A24 Hasan, F.A. and Sears, D.W.G. (1985) The natural thermoluminescence of
Antarctic meteorites: Some comparisons with non-Antarctic meteorites. Workshop on Antarctic Meteorites,
Mainz, July 1985.
A39. Hasan, F.A., Haq, M. and Sears, D.W.G. (1986) Natural thermoluminescence of Antarctic
meteorites: A study of
thermal/radiation history and pairing.
Lunar Planet. Sci. XVII, 315-316.
A40. Hasan, F.A., Haq, M. and Sears, D.W.G. (1986) The natural thermoluminesence of
Antarctic meteorites and its relationship with Al-26 content. Meteoritics, 21, 390-391.
A51. Hasan, F.A. and Sears, D.W.G. (1987) The natural thermoluminescence of
meteorites and their orbits. Meteoritics,
22, 403-405.
A59. Hasan, F.A. and Sears, D.W.G. (1988) Thermoluminescence evidence for a
terrestrial age difference between Allan Hills and Lewis Cliff meteorites. Lunar Planet. Sci. XIX,
457-458.
A60. Hasan, F.A., Sears, D.W.G. and Cassidy, W.A.
(1988) Evidence for a relationship
between the natural thermoluminescence and the Antarctic meteorite recovery
locations. Meteoritics, 23,
273.
A70. Hasan, F.A., Score, R. and Sears, D.W.G. (1989) The natural thermoluminescence survey
of Antarctic meteorites - A discussion of methods of reporting natural TL
data. Lunar Planet. Sci.
XX, 383-384.
A80. Sears D.W.G., Sears H. and Myers B.M. (1990) The natural TL survey of the 1987/1988
Antarctic meteorite collections: Pairing, an unusual carbonaceous chondrite
group and lunar meteorites. Lunar
Planet. Sci. XXI, 1121-1122.
A82. Benoit P.H. and Sears D.W.G. (1991) Data on meteorite orbits and orbital
evolution from natural thermoluminescence and cosmic ray exposure ages of
observed falls. Lunar Planet.
Sci. XXII, 87-88.
A83. Benoit P.H., Lu Jie, Jull A.J.T. and Sears S.W.G.
(1991) Thermoluminsescence and
C-14 of Non-Antarctic meteorites: Terrestrial ages of Prairie State finds. Meteoritics, 26, 316-317.
A84. Benoit P.H., Sears H. and Sears D.W.G. (1991) Ice movement, pairing and meteorite showers
of ordinary chondrites from the Allan Hills. Meteoritics, 26, 317.
A85. Benoit P.H., Sears H. and Sears D.W.G. (1991) Thermoluminescence of meteorites from
the Lewis Cliff: Ice movements, pairing, orbit, and Antarctic/non-Antarctic
comparisons. Meteoritics, 26,
317.
A88. Sears D.W.G., Benoit P.H., Sears H., Batchelor, D.J.,
and Symes S. (1991) The natural
thermoluminescence properties of basaltic and lunar meteorites. Lunar Planet. Sci. XXII,
1211-1212.
A91. Symes S., Benoit P.H., Sears H. and Sears D.W.G.
(1991) Natural thermoluminescence
and anomalous fading: terrestrial age, transit times,and perihelia of lunar
meteorites. Meteoritics, 26,
399-400.
A94. Benoit P.H. and Sears D.W.G. (1992) Thermoluminescence measurements on
meteorites from the Elephant Moraine Region: L6 showers and regional ice movements. Meteoritics 27, 201--202.
A95. Benoit P.H., Sears D.W.G. and McKeever S.W.S.
(1992) Natural thermoluminescence
and terrestrial ages of meteorites:
Age clustering in the Saharan collection. Lunar Planet. Sci. XXIII, 89-90.
A105. Benoit
P.H. and Sears D.W.G. (1993)
Natural Thermoluminescence profiles in lunar cores and implications for
meteorites. Lunar Planet. Sci.
XXIV, 95-96.
A106. Benoit
P.H. and Sears D.W.G. (1993)
Meteorites from recent Amor-type orbits. Lunar Planet. Sci. XXIV, 93-94.
A111. Benoit
P.H. and Sears D.W.G. (1993) The
orbital distribution of earth-crossing asteroids and meteoroids. Meteoritics 28, 322-323.
A120. Benoit
P.H., Chen Y. and Sears D.W.G. (1994)
Natural thermoluminescence profiles in meteorites: Cosmogenic and terrestrial profiles in
falls and finds. Lunar Planet.
Sci. XXV, 99-100.
A131 Benoit P. H. and Sears D. W. G. (1995) Terrestrial age clustering of meteorite
finds from sites in Antarctica and Hot Deserts. Lunar Planet. Inst. Tech. Rpt. 95-02, 19-22. (Presented at the Workshop on
Meteorites from Hot and Cold Deserts, Nordlingen, July 20-22, 1994).
A132. Benoit
P. H. and Sears D. W. G. (1995)
The use of lunar soil for non-critical radiation dosimetry for robotic
rovers. Lunar Planet. Sci.
XXVI, 103-104.
A133. Benoit
P.H. and Sears D.W.G. (1995) The
orbits of ordinary chondrite meteoroid bodies contributing to the meteoritic flux. Meteoritics 30, 485-486.
A141. Zhang
Y., Huang S., Benoit P.H. and Sears D.W.G. (1995) Natural thermoluminscence evidence for major differences in
thermal history of EH and EL chondrites.
Lunar Planet. Sci. XXVI, 1557-1558.
A143. Cunningham
J., Benoit P.H. and Sears D.W.G. (1996)
Determination of the terrestrial age of ordinary chondrites using fusion
crust. Lunar Planet. Sci.
XXVII, 281-282.
A146. Symes
S., Benoit P.H. and Sears D.W.G. (1996)
Thermal histories of lunar meteorites and Apollo samples: A thermoluminescence overview. Lunar Planet. Sci. XXVII,
1299-1300.
A148. Akridge
J. M. C., Benoit P. H. and Sears D. W. G. (1997) Fusion crust and the
measruement of surface ages of Antarctic ordinary chondrites. Lunar Planet. Sci. XXVIII,
15-16.
A149. Benoit
P. H. and Sears D. W. G. (1997)
Meteorite infall and transport in Antarctica: An analysis of implications for meteorite accumulation. Lunar Planet. Sci. XXVIII,
93-94.
A150. Benoit
P. H., Akridge J. M. C., Sears D. W. G., Pillinger C. T. and Bland P. A.
(1997) The weathering of Antarctic
meteoirites: Climatic controls on
weathering rates and icefields as accumulation surfaces. Lunar Planet. Sci. XXVIII,
95-96.
A159. Akridge
J. M. C., Benoit P. H. and Sears D. W. G. (1998) Cosmic ray radiation history examined using high temperature
thermoluminescence. Lunar Planet. Sci. XXIX, CD-ROM # 1197.
A161. Benoit
P. H. and Sears D. W. G. (1998)
Pairing unbound:
Fragmentation of Antarctic meteorites. Lunar Planet. Sci. XXIX, CD-ROM # 1454.
A162 Ninagawa K., Miyazaki H., Soyama K., Imae N., Kojima
H., Benoit P. H. and Sears D. W. G. (1998) Termoluminescence of Japanese Antarctic meteorites II. Antarctic Meteorites XXIII (Papers
presented at the twenty-third symposium of antarctic meteorites), 110-111.
A169. Benoit
P. H. and Sears D. W. G. (1999).
Pairing of meteorites finds:
A probability approach. Lunar Planet. Sci. XXX, CD-ROM
#1052.
A175 Benoit P. H. and Sears D. W. G. (1999) The natural thermoluminescence survey
of Antarctic meteorites: ordinary
chondrites at the Grosvenor Mountains, MacAlpine Hills, Pecora Escarpment and Queen
Alexandra Range, and new data for the Elephant Morrain ice fields. Lunar Planetary Inst. Tech,.Rept.
(in press).
A179. Sears
D. W. G., Benoit P. H. and Akridge D. G. (1999) Thermoluminescence and the thermal history of meteorites. Meteorit.
Planet. Sci. 34, A105-A106.
A180. Benoit
P.H. and Sears D.W.G. (2000) The interpretation of natural thermoluminescence
data for meteorites: Theoretical
basis and practical application. Lunar Planet. Sci. XXXI, CD-ROM
#1396.
A183. Ferko
T.E., M.E. Lipschutz, Bhandari N., Singhvi A.K., Hutchison R., Benoit P.H.,
Sears D.W.G., Franke L., Scherer P. and Schultz L. (2000) Cosmic Ray products
in the Ghubara (L5) regolith breccia.
Lunar Planet. Sci. XXXI, CD-ROM #1814.
A189. Benoit P.H. and Sears. D.W.G. (2001) The
orbital distribution of meteorites based on high temperature
thermoluminescence:-I. Theory and
modern falls. Lunar Planet.
Sci. XXXII, CD-ROM #1795.
A190. Benoit P.H., Akridge J. M. C. and Sears. D.W.G.
(2001) The orbital
distribution of meteorites based on high temperature thermoluminescence:-
II. Orbits of meteorites over the
last million years. Lunar
Planet. Sci. XXXII, CD-ROM #1924.
A192. Ferko E., Wang M. –S., Hillegonds D. J., Lipschutz M.
E., Hutchison R., Franke L., Scherer P., Schultz L., Benoit P. H., Sears D. W.
G., Singhvi A. K. and Bhandari N. (2001)
The complex irradiation history of the Ghubara regolith breccia. Meteorit.
Planet. Sci. 36, A56.
Pub |
Authors |
Year |
Vol, Issue, Page |
Hasan F.A.
and Score R. |
1989 |
12(1), 21 |
|
Myers B., Sears H., Hasan F., Score R. and Sears D. |
1990 |
13(2), 25-27. |
|
Benoit P. H., Myers B., Sears H., Sears D. |
1990 |
13(3), 20-22 |
|
Benoit P.,
Sears H. and Sears D. |
1991 |
14(1), 15 |
|
Benoit P.H.,
Roth J., Sears H., Sears D. |
1992 |
15(1), 19 |
|
Benoit P.H.,
Roth J., Sears H., Sears D. |
1992 |
15(2), 34-35 |
|
Benoit P.H., Roth J., Sears H., Sears D. |
1993 |
16(1), 21 |
|
Benoit P.H., Roth J., Sears H., Sears D. |
1993 |
16(2), 21 |
|
Benoit P.H.,
Roth J., Sears H., Sears D. |
1994 |
17(1), 23 |
|
Benoit P.H.,
Roth J., Sears H., Sears D. |
1994 |
17(3), 20-21 |
|
Benoit P.H.,
Roth J., Sears H., Sears D. |
1995 |
18(1), 17 |
|
Benoit P.H. and Sears D. |
1996 |
19(1), 20-21 |
|
Benoit P.H. and Sears D. |
1996 |
19(2), 14-15 |
|
Benoit P.H. and Sears D. |
1997 |
20(1), 15 |
|
Benoit P.H. and Sears D. |
1997 |
20(2), 12 |
|
Benoit P.H. and Sears D. |
1998 |
21(1), 15 |
|
Slinker J., Benoit P.H., Sears D. |
1998 |
21(2), 19 |
|
Slinker J., Benoit P.H., Sears D. |
1999 |
22(1), 19 |
|
Cosmochemistry Group. |
1999 |
22(2), 13 |
|
Benoit P.H. and Sears D.W.G. |
2000 |
23(1), 21 |
|
Benoit P.H. and Sears D.W.G. |
2000 |
23(2), 21-22 |
|
Benoit P.H. and Sears D.W.G. |
2001 |
24(1), 14 |
|
Cummings M., Benoit P. H., Sears D. W. G. |
2001 |
24(2),
21-22 |