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Calcite U–Pb dating of altered ancient oceanic crust in the North Pamir, Central Asia
Institute of Geosciences, University of Potsdam, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
Edward R. Sobel
Institute of Geosciences, University of Potsdam, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
Jonas Kley
Department of Structural Geology and Geodynamics, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
Jie Chen
State Key Lab. of Earthquake Dynamics, Xinjiang Pamir Intracontinental Subduction National Field Observation and Research Station, Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration, X9GJ+RV Chaoyang, Beijing, China
Jian-Xin Zhao
School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
Yuexing Feng
School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
Daryl L. Howard
The Australian Synchrotron, 800 Blackburn Rd, Clayton, VIC 3168, Australia
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Andrew R. C. Kylander-Clark
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George Gehrels, Dominique Giesler, Paul Olsen, Dennis Kent, Adam Marsh, William Parker, Cornelia Rasmussen, Roland Mundil, Randall Irmis, John Geissman, and Christopher Lepre
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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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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
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Short summary
Calcite is frequently formed during alteration processes in the basaltic, uppermost layer of juvenile oceanic crust. Weathered oceanic basalts are hard to date with conventional radiometric methods. We show in a case study from the North Pamir, Central Asia, that calcite U–Pb age data, supported by geochemistry and petrological microscopy, have potential to date sufficiently old oceanic basalts, if the time span between basalt extrusion and latest calcite precipitation (~ 25 Myr) is considered.
Calcite is frequently formed during alteration processes in the basaltic, uppermost layer of...
