Palaeo-thermal and coalification history of Permo- Carboniferous sedimentary basins of Central and Western Bohemia, Czech Republic: first insights from apatite fission track analysis and vitrinite reflectance modelling

the technique of apatite fission track (AFT) analysis (AFTA) to various geological formations in order to reconstruct their low-temperature thermo-chronologies, exhumation rates and/or landscape geomorphological evolution (see also Lisker et al. 2009, Green & Duddy 2012 and Enkelmann & Garver 2016 for reviews on AFTA applications to geology). With respect to the Bohemian Massif, most of these studies have concentrated on its peripheral zones, where the AFTA technique documented an intensive Mesozoic denudation (e.g. Hejl et al. 1997, 2003; Thomson & Zeh 2000; Ventura & Lisker 2003;