Average life of oxygen vacancies of quartz in sediments is estimated by using the ESR (electron spin resonance) signals of E( centers from the thermal activation technique. The experimental results show that the second-order kinetics equation is more applicable to the life estimation compared with the first order equation. The average life of oxygen vacancies of quartz from 4895 to 4908 deep sediments in the Tarim Basin is about 1018 a at 27℃.
