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Tools for uranium characterization in carbonate samples: case studies of natural U–Pb geochronology reference materials
E. Troy Rasbury
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Geosciences, FIRST, Stony Brook University, 100 Nichols
Rd, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
Theodore M. Present
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of
Technology, 307 North Mudd Laboratory, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Paul Northrup
Department of Geosciences, FIRST, Stony Brook University, 100 Nichols
Rd, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
Ryan V. Tappero
NSLS-II, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton NY 11973, USA
Antonio Lanzirotti
Center for Advanced Radiation Sources, Randall, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Jennifer M. Cole
Department of Science, West Los Angeles College, Culver City, CA
90230, USA
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, 61 Route 9W,
Palisades, NY 10964, USA
Kathleen M. Wooton
Department of Geosciences, FIRST, Stony Brook University, 100 Nichols
Rd, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
Kevin Hatton
Department of Geosciences, FIRST, Stony Brook University, 100 Nichols
Rd, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
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Marcel Guillong, Jörn-Frederik Wotzlaw, Nathan Looser, and Oscar Laurent
Geochronology, 2, 155–167, https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-2-155-2020, https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-2-155-2020, 2020
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The dating of carbonates by laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry is improved by an additional, newly characterised reference material and adapted data evaluation protocols: the shape (diameter to depth) of the ablation crater has to be as similar as possible in the reference material used and the unknown samples to avoid an offset. Different carbonates have different ablation rates per laser pulse. With robust uncertainty propagation, precision can be as good as 2–3 %.
Nick M. W. Roberts, Kerstin Drost, Matthew S. A. Horstwood, Daniel J. Condon, David Chew, Henrik Drake, Antoni E. Milodowski, Noah M. McLean, Andrew J. Smye, Richard J. Walker, Richard Haslam, Keith Hodson, Jonathan Imber, Nicolas Beaudoin, and Jack K. Lee
Geochronology, 2, 33–61, https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-2-33-2020, https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-2-33-2020, 2020
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Here we review current progress in LA-ICP-MS U–Pb carbonate geochronology and present strategies for acquisition and interpretation of carbonate U–Pb dates. We cover topics from imaging techniques and U and Pb incorporation into calcite to potential limitations of the method – disequilibrium and isotope mobility. We demonstrate the incorporation of imaging and compositional data to help refine and interpret U–Pb dates. We expect this paper to become a
go-toreference paper for years to come.
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We characterize three natural carbonate samples with elevated uranium/lead (U/Pb) ratios to demonstrate techniques improving the understanding of U incorporation in carbonates for U/Pb dating. With the rapidly accelerating application of laser ablation analyses, there is a great need for well-characterized reference materials that can serve multiple functions. Strontium (Sr) isotope analyses and U XANES demonstrate that these samples could be used as reference materials.
We characterize three natural carbonate samples with elevated uranium/lead (U/Pb) ratios to...
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