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A New Appraisal of Sri Lankan BB Zircon as a Reference Material for LA-ICP-MS U-Pb Geochronology and Lu-Hf Isotope Tracing

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Santos,  Maristella M.
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Lana,  Cristiano
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Scholz,  Ricardo
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Buick,  Ian
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Schmitz,  Mark D.
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Kamo,  Sandra L.
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Gerdes,  Axel
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Corfu,  Fernando
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Tapster,  Simon
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Lancaster,  Penelope
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Storey,  Craig D.
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Basei,  Miguel A.S.
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Tohver,  Eric
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Alkmim,  Ana
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Nalini,  Herminio
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Krambrock,  Klaus
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Fantini,  Cristiano
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Wiedenbeck,  Michael
3.1 Inorganic and Isotope Geochemistry, 3.0 Geochemistry, Departments, GFZ Publication Database, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum;

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Santos, M. M., Lana, C., Scholz, R., Buick, I., Schmitz, M. D., Kamo, S. L., Gerdes, A., Corfu, F., Tapster, S., Lancaster, P., Storey, C. D., Basei, M. A., Tohver, E., Alkmim, A., Nalini, H., Krambrock, K., Fantini, C., Wiedenbeck, M. (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


Cite as: https://gfzpublic.gfz-potsdam.de/pubman/item/item_2632950
Abstract
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).