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31 Jul 2020
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| 31 Jul 2020
Resolving the timescales of magmatic and hydrothermal processes associated with porphyry deposit formation using zircon U–Pb petrochronology
Simon J. E. Large
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Earth Sciences, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule
(ETH) Zurich, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland
current address: Department of Earth Sciences, Natural History
Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, UK
Jörn-Frederik Wotzlaw
Department of Earth Sciences, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule
(ETH) Zurich, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland
Marcel Guillong
Department of Earth Sciences, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule
(ETH) Zurich, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland
Albrecht von Quadt
Department of Earth Sciences, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule
(ETH) Zurich, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland
Christoph A. Heinrich
Department of Earth Sciences, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule
(ETH) Zurich, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland
Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Zurich,
8006 Zürich, Switzerland
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Short summary
The integration of zircon geochemistry and U–Pb geochronology (petrochronology) allows us to improve our understanding of magmatic processes. Here we could reconstruct the ~300 kyr evolution of the magma reservoir that sourced the magmas, fluids and metals to form the Batu Hijau porphyry Cu–Au deposit. The application of in situ LA-ICP-MS and high-precision CA–ID–TIMS geochronology to the same zircons further allowed an assessment of the strengths and limitations of the different techniques.
The integration of zircon geochemistry and U–Pb geochronology (petrochronology) allows us to...
