1. Software Functionality: Software available through this web page is described in chapter 22 of the volume. The reference for this chapter is:
Todd A. Ehlers, Tehmasp Chaudhri, Santosh Kumar, Chris W. Fuller, Sean D. Willett, Richard A. Ketcham, Mark T. Brandon, David X. Belton, Barry P. Kohn, Andrew J.W. Gleadow, Tibor J. Dunai, Frank Q. Fu, (2005), Computational tools for low-temperature thermochronometer interpretation, Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry, v. 58, p. 589-622.

2. Copyright Information: The software is provided as a courtesy to the broader scientific community and in some cases represents years of effort by the contributors. The software can be used free of charge for non-profit research, but persons with commercial or for-profi t interests and applications should contact the software contributor concerning the legalities of its use.

3. Bugs and Software Use: Although every effort has been made by the contributors to assure the software provided functions properly and is free of errors, no guarantee of the validity of the software and results calculated can be made. Thus, application of the software is done at the users own risk and the software contributors are not accountable for the results calculated.

4. Availability of Source Code: The source code is freely available for some of the software packages provided below. Persons interested in acquiring the source code should contact the software contributor.

5. Software Updates: Software updates will occasionally be posted to this web page. However, users can also contact the software contributor directly if they desire to have the most recent version.

6. Suggested format for referencing software described in this chapter: Each computer program described in this chapter was developed by different contributors. To assure each contributor receives appropriate credit for their contribution please include the contributor and software name in publications that benefited from use of software. For example, programs in this volume could be cited in the following way, “We computed erosion rates using the program AGE2EDOT developed by M. Brandon and summarized in Ehlers et al. (2005).” If additional publications are available describing the software (e.g., HeFTy; Ketcham et al. 2005) please also reference those publications.

If you have read the above information and agree with the terms of use you can download individual programs below:

Available software packages are listed and can be downloaded below:

1. TERRA. Thermochronometer Exhumation Record Recovery Analysis. Main contributor and contact person: Todd A. Ehlers (University of Michigan), email: tehlers @ umich.edu.

• Most recent Windows XP version (10/09/05) available here.
• Most recent Red Hat Enterprise Linux version (10/09/05) available here.

2. Geotherm calculation programs associated with figures in Chapter 12 by Ehlers.

• Download Matlab programs here.

3. HeFTy and FTIndex. Contributor and contact person: Richard Ketchum (University of Texas, Austin), email: ketcham @ mail.utexas.edu.

• Most recent version (10/09/05) available here.

4. BINOMFIT, CLOSURE, AGE2EDOT, and RESPTIM. Contributor and contact person: Mark Brandon (Yale University), email: mark.brandon @ yale.edu

• Most recent version (10/09/05) available here.

5. TASC. Main contributor and contact person: David Belton (University of Melbourne), email: dxbelton @ unimelb.edu.au.

• Most recent version (10/09/05) available here.

6. DECOMP. Main contributor and contact person: Tibor Dunai (Vrije University), email: tibor.dunai @ falw.vu.nl.

• Most recent version (10/09/05) available here.

7. 4DTherm. Main contributor and contact person: Frank Fu (University of Sydney and CSIRO Exploration and Ming), email: qifu6346 @ mail.usyd.edu.au.

• Most recent version (10/09/05) available here.
  

8. Links to other thermochronology software packages not described in the chapter:

• UCLA MultiDomain Diffusion Fortran programs
• Lehigh University Argon K-spar and apatite (U-Th)/He programs

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