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Single zircon dating by LAM-ICPMS technique

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A UV laser ablation microprobe-inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LAMICPMS) is used to determine the Pb/Pb and Pb/U ages of several zircon grains whose ages have been measured by the conventional U-Pb thermal ionization mass spectrometry (TIMS) method. The mass fractionation factor of Pb isotope ratio was typically between 0.010-0.012 and corrected by NIST610 glass standard. Several factors that influence the stability of Pb/U ratio have been investigated and optimized. The precision of207Pb/206Pb and206Pb/238U from each sampling crater is within 0.6%—2.4% and 1%—10% respectively, while the precision for the average of mean ratios from different craters is 0.7% and 6% correspondingly. The207Pb/206Pb and206Pb/238U age differences compared with TIMS results are ≪ 1% and < 3% respectively.

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  1. Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 510640, Guangzhou, China

    Haichen Liu & Bingquan Zhu

  2. Department of Chemistry, Zhongshan University, 510275, Guangzhou, China

    Haichen Liu & Zhanxia Zhang

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Liu, H., Zhu, B. & Zhang, Z. Single zircon dating by LAM-ICPMS technique. Chin. Sci. Bull. 44, 182–186 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02884748

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