40 Ar/ 39 Ar spectrum ages for biotite, hornblende and muscovite in a contact metamorphic zone

Details 40 Ar/ 39 Ar spectrum ages for biotite, hornblende and muscovite in a contact metamorphic zone 40 Ar/ 39 Ar spectrum ages for biotite, hornblende and muscovite in a contact metamorphic zone

Sep 1975

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1975gecoa..39.1269h&link_type=abstract

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 39, Issue 9, pp.1269-1278

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Biotite, hornblende and muscovite from 2700 m.y. old rocks in northeastern Minnesota near the contact of the 1150 m.y. Duluth Complex have been analyzed by 40 Ar/ 39 Ar technique to determine whether spectrum ages can be used to distinguish partial loss of radiogenic argon due to a reheating event. Biotite and hornblende give plateau ages comparable to the ordinary K-Ar ages for all samples including those with intermediate ages. Muscovite gives plateau ages for the samples with less than 11% argon loss. An intermediate muscovite with a conventional K-Ar age of 1850 m.y. gives progressively older 40 Ar/ 39 Ar ages for higher temperature fractions. Microprobe analysis reveals no systematic correlation between biotite chemistry and loss of argon in the contact zone. This suggests that the rate-controlling process for the loss of argon from biotite in the contact zone may be volume diffusion or recrystallization without a measurable change in major element composition. Biotites with intermediate ages give plateaus because the rate-controlling processes in the vacuum furnace are related to dehydroxylation and delamination and are unrelated to the process causing loss of argon in the contact zone. The data for the muscovites are not easily interpreted, in part because of the limited number of samples. The hornblende data show a correlation between argon loss and change in major element composition suggesting that recrystallization may be a rate-controlling process for the loss of argon from hornblende in the contact zone. The small number of samples precludes a definitive statement.

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