Quantifying Long‐Term Reproducibility of Zircon Reference Materials by U‐Pb LA‐ICP‐MS Dating

Sliwinski, Jakub T.; Guillong, Marcel; Horstwood, Matthew S.A.; Bachmann, Olivier. 2022 Quantifying Long‐Term Reproducibility of Zircon Reference Materials by U‐Pb LA‐ICP‐MS Dating. Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research, 46 (3). 401-409. 10.1111/ggr.12442

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Abstract/Summary

Inter-session excess variance of U/Pb and Pb/Pb ratios in LA-ICP-MS zircon dating is the largest contributor to systematic errors, which in turn limit the accuracy of age determinations. Quantifying long-term excess variance of reference materials allows for the estimation of excess variance in samples, but such compilations are not available in the literature. Here, we present the results of over 100 measurement sessions over 6 years for seven common zircon reference materials and calculate a characteristic excess variance for each. For 206Pb/238U ages, these values (2s) are as follows: AusZ7-1 = 1.7% (115 sessions), AusZ7-5 = 0% (74), OD-3 = 0.6% (19), Temora2 = 1.2% (86), Plešovice = 1.1% (100), 91500 = 1.0% (146) and Mud Tank = 3.0% (12). For 207Pb/206Pb ages, smaller excess variances are observed: Temora2 = 0.3%, Plešovice = 0.4%, Mud Tank = 1.7% and 91500 = 0.4%. These values are well-constrained estimates of inter-session excess variance for the ETH Zürich LA-ICP-MS laboratory using a sector-field ICP-MS, and may provide either a first-order estimate for other laboratories or a value to compare against their own reference material compilations.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	10.1111/ggr.12442
ISSN:	1639-4488
Date made live:	02 Aug 2022 13:22 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/533015

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