A new appraisal of Sri Lankan BB zircon as a reference material for LA-ICP-MS U-Pb geochronology and Lu-Hf isotope tracing

Santos, Maristella M.; Lana, Cristiano; Scholz, Ricardo; Buick, Ian; Schmitz, Mark D.; Kamo, Sandra L.; Gerdes, Axel; Corfu, Fernando; Tapster, Simon; Lancaster, Penelope; Storey, Craig D.; Basei, Miguel A.S.; Tohver, Eric; Alkmim, Ana; Nalini, Herminio; Krambrock, Klaus; Fantini, Cristiano; Wiedenbeck, Michael. 2017 A new appraisal of Sri Lankan BB zircon as a reference material for LA-ICP-MS U-Pb geochronology and Lu-Hf isotope tracing. Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research, 41 (3). 335-358. https://doi.org/10.1111/ggr.12167

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Abstract/Summary

A potential zircon reference material (BB zircon) for laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) U-Pb geochronology and Hf isotope geochemistry is described. A batch of twenty zircon megacrysts (0.5–1.5 cm3) from Sri Lanka was studied. Within-grain rare earth element (REE) compositions are largely homogeneous, albeit with some variation seen between fractured and homogeneous domains. Excluding fractured cathodoluminescence bright domains, the variation in U content for all analysed crystals ranged from 227 to 368 μg g−1 and the average Th/U ratios were between 0.20 and 0.47. The Hf isotope composition (0.56–0.84 g/100 g Hf) is homogeneous within and between the grains – mean 176Hf/177Hf of 0.281674 ± 0.000018 (2s). The calculated alpha dose of 0.59 × 1018 g−1 for a number of BB grains falls within the trend of previously studied, untreated zircon samples from Sri Lanka. Aliquots of the same crystal (analysed by ID-TIMS in four different laboratories) gave consistent U-Pb ages with excellent measurement reproducibility (0.1–0.4% RSD). Interlaboratory assessment (by LA-ICP-MS) from individual crystals returned results that are within uncertainty equivalent to the TIMS ages. Finally, we report on within- and between-grain homogeneity of the oxygen isotope systematic of four BB crystals (13.16‰ VSMOW).

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1111/ggr.12167
ISSN:	16394488
Date made live:	10 Nov 2017 15:21 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/518331

Item Type:

Publication - Article

Digital Object Identifier (DOI):

https://doi.org/10.1111/ggr.12167

ISSN:

16394488

Date made live:

10 Nov 2017 15:21 +0 (UTC)

URI:

https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/518331