High-resolution ion-microprobe measurement of lead isotopes: Variations within single zircons from Lac Seul, northwestern Ontario

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Nov 1979

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1979e%26psl..45..309h&link_type=abstract

Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 45, Issue 2, p. 309-325.

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Selected-area measurements of lead-isotope ratios in zircons have been made at high mass resolution using a modified A.E.I. IM20 ion-microprobe. At a working resolution of 3200 it is shown that the important interfering molecular peaks generated from the zircon matrix may be separated from atomic lead peaks. Corrections for overlapping peaks, which are necessary in measurements of lead isotopes at low mass resolution, are then only required for 208Pb. Measurements on N.B.S. standards show no isotope discrimination within counting statistics. Determination of 207Pb/206Pb on 29 single zircon grains from a tonalite gneiss and a granite from Lac Seul, northwestern Ontario, give very variable ratios with mean values close to those of bulk separates. Peaks in the distribution of 207/206 ratios obtained from the tonalite gneiss may be interpreted as evidence for two stages of lead loss. High 207/206 ratios are shown to be significant for at least two zircons and probably record a minimum age of formation of 3.3 +/- 0.1 b.y. for the gneiss.

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