Joint determination of 40K decay constants and 40Ar*/40K for the Fish Canyon sanidine standard, and improved accuracy for 40Ar/39Ar geochronology

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 74, Issue 18, 2010, Pages 5349-5367

  Renne, Paul R ^a,b   Mundil, Roland ^a   Balco, Greg ^a,b   Min, Kyoungwon ^c   Ludwig, Kenneth R ^a  

^a BERKELEY GEOCHRONOLOGY CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGON ISOTOPE; ARGON-ARGON DATING; CALIBRATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; POTASSIUM; SANIDINE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

COLORADO; FISH CANYON; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77955563711     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2010.06.017     Document Type: Article

References (72)

1. Aguilar J.P., Clauzon G., deHerve A.D., Maluski H., Michaux J., Welcomme J.L. The MN3 fossil mammal-bearing locality of Beaulieu (France): biochronology, radiometric dating, and lower age limit of the Early Neogene renewal of the mammalian fauna in Europe. Newsl. Stratigr. 1996, 34:177-191.
2. 39Ar and U-Pb dating of the Fish Canyon magmatic system, San Juan Volcanic Field, Colorado: evidence for an extended crystallization history. Chem. Geol. 2007, 236:134-166.
3. Bacon C.R., Lowenstern J.B. Late Pleistocene granodiorite source for recycled zircon and phenocrysts in rhyodacite lava at Crater Lake, Oregon. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 2005, 233:277-293.
4. 39Ar dating standards. Chem. Geol. 1996, 129:307-324.
5. 40K. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 1969, 6:289-294.
6. Begemann F., Ludwig K.R., Lugmair G.W., Min K., Nyquist L.E., Patchett P.J., Renne P.R., Shih C.-Y., Villa I.M., Walker R.J. Call for an improved set of decay constants for geochronological use. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 2001, 65:111-121.
7. 238U microprobe geochronology by the monitoring of a trace-element-related matrix effect; SHRIMP, ID-TIMS, ELA-ICP-MS and oxygen isotope documentation for a series of zircon standards. Chem. Geol. 2004, 205:115-140.
8. 40K. Geophys. Res. Lett. 1979, 6:697-699.
9. Cande S.C., Kent D.V. Revised calibration of the geomagnetic polarity timescale for the Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic. J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth 1995, 100:6093-6095.
10. 39Ar age of the Jehol Biota. Paleogeogr. Paleoecol. Paleoclimatol. 2009, 280:94-104.
11. Channell J.E.T., Mazaud A., Sullivan P., Turner S., Raymo M.E. Geomagnetic excursions and paleointensities in the Matuyama Chron at Ocean Drilling Program Sites 983 and 984 (Iceland Basin). J. Geophys. Res. 2002, 107(6).
12. Channell J.E.T., Curtis J.H., Flower B.P. The Matuyama-Brunhes boundary interval (500-900ka) in North Atlantic drift sediments. Geophys. J. Int. 2004, 158:489-505.
13. 39Ar analysis. Geochronology, Time Scales and Stratigraphic Correlation 1995, vol. 54:1-22. SEPM Special Publication.
14. 39Ar ages and implications. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 2004, 222:667-684.
15. Crowley J.L., Schoene B., Bowring S.A. U-Pb dating of zircon in the Bishop Tuff at the millennial scale. Geology 2007, 35:1123-1126.
16. 39Ar standards and some comments on the age of the Fish Canyon Tuff. Chem. Geol. 2003, 199:111-127.
17. Dodson M.H. Closure temperature in cooling geochronological and petrological systems. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. 1973, 40:259-274.
18. Endt P.M., Van der Leun C. Energy levels of A=21-44 nuclei (V). Nucl. Phys. 1973, A214:1-625.
19. 39Ar age spectra of Mesozoic tholeiites from Antarctica. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 1977, 41:15-32.
20. Garner E.L., Murphy T.J., Gramlich J.W., Paulsen P.J., Barnes I.L. Absolute isotopic abundance ratios and the atomic weight of a reference sample of potassium. J. Res. Natl. Bur. Stand. 1975, 79A:713-725.
21. Gradstein F., Ogg J., Smith A. A Geologic Time Scale 2004 2004, University Press, Cambridge, p. 611.
22. 40K by LSC. Appl. Radiat. Isot. 2002, 56:153-156.
23. 39Ar ages of ash beds: potential implications for the age of mineral dating standards. Geophys. Res. Lett. 1997, 24:2043-2046.
24. 39Ar and K/Ar Dating of the Bishop and Fish Canyon Tuffs: calibration of ages for fission-track dating standards. Chem. Geol. 1985, 58:23-32.
25. Irving E. Paleomagnetism of some Carboniferous rocks from New South Wales and its relation to geological events. J. Geophys. Res. 1966, 71:6025-6051.
26. 238U. Phys. Rev. 1971, C4:1889-1906.
27. 39Ar dating standard using primary K-Ar standards. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 2007, 71:387-402.
28. 40K decay constant bias. Lithos 2009, 110:167-180.
29. 40K. Appl. Radiat. Isot. 2004, 60:459-464.
30. Kuiper K.F., Deino A., Hilgen F.J., Krijgsman W., Renne P.R., Wijbrans J.R. Synchronizing the rock clocks of Earth history. Science 2008, 320:500-504.
31. 40K and age of a dating standard. Math. Geol. 2002, 34:457-474.
32. Lagarias J.C., Reeds J.A., Wright M.H., Wright P.E. Convergence properties of the Nelder-Meade Simplex method in low dimensions. SIAM J. Optim. 1998, 9:112-147.
33. 39Ar, Rb-Sr and U/Pb mineral ages from the 27.5Ma Fish Canyon Tuff reference standard. Chem. Geol. 2001, 175:653-671.
34. Lanphere M. A. and Dalrymple G. B. (2000) First principles calibration of 38Ar tracers; implications for the ages of 40Ar/39Ar fluence monitors. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1621, p. 10.).
35. Lourens L., Hilgen F., Shackleton N.J., Laskar J., Wilson J. Appendix 2. Orbital tuning calibrations and conversions for the Neogene Period. A Geologic Time Scale 2004 2004, 469-471. Cambridge University Press. F.M. Gradstein, J.G. Ogg, A.G. Smith (Eds.).
36. 187Os systematics in meteorites; early chronology of the solar system and age of the Galaxy. Nature 1980, 283:256-259.
37. Ludwig K.R. On the treatment of concordant uranium-lead ages. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 1998, 62:665-676.
38. Ludwig K.R. Decay constant errors in U-Pb concordia-intercept ages. Chem. Geol. 2000, 166:315-318.
39. Mattinson J.M. U-Pb ages of zircons - a basic examination of error propagation. Chem. Geol. 1987, 66:151-162.
40. Mattinson J.M. Zircon U-Pb chemical abrasion (" CA-TIMS" ) method: Combined annealing and multi-step partial dissolution analysis for improved precision and accuracy of zircon ages. Chem. Geol. 2005, 220:47-66.
41. Mattinson J. M. (in press) Analysis of the relative decay constants of 235U and 238U by Multi-step CA-TIMS Measurements of Closed-System Natural Zircon Samples. Chem. Geol. doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2010.05.007.
42. McIntyre G.A., Brooks C., Compston W., Turek A. The statistical assessment of Rb/Sr isochrons. J. Geophys. Res. 1966, 71:5459-5468.
43. 39Ar geochronology through comparison with U-Pb analysis of a 1.1Ga rhyolite. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 2000, 64:73-98.
44. 39Ar dating of Ordovician K-bentonites in Laurentia and Baltoscandia. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 2001, 185:121-134.
45. 87Sr method. Nature 1982, 300:414-419.
46. Mundil R., Metcalfe I., Ludwig K.R., Renne P.R., Oberli F., Nicoll R.S. Timing of the Permian-Triassic biotic crisis: implications for new zircon U/Pb age data (and their limitations). Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 2001, 187:133-147.
47. Mundil R., Ludwig K.R., Metcalf I., Renne P.R. Age and timing of the end Permian mass extinction: U-Pb geochronology of closed system zircons. Science 2004, 305:1760-1763.
48. Mundil R., Palfy J., Renne P.R., Brack P. The Triassic time scale: new constraints and a review of geochronological data. The Triassic Timescale 2010, vol. 334:41-60. Geological Society, London, Special Publications.
49. 39Ar dating standard tied to the Cobb Mountain geomagnetic event. Chem. Geol. 2005, 218:319-342.
50. 40K. Phys. Lett. B 2001, 519:15-22.
51. 39Ar dating of the Miocene fossil track site at Ipolytarnóc (Hungary) and its implications. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 2007, 258:160-174.
52. Patchett P.J., Tatsumoto M. Lu-Hf total-rock isochron for the eucrite meteorites. Nature 1980, 288:571-574.
53. 39Ar geochronology. Mineral. Mag. 1998, 62A:1255-1256.
54. Renne P.R., Deino A.L., Walter R.C., Turrin B.D., Swisher C.C., Becker T.A., Curtis G.H., Sharp W.D., Jaouni A.-R. Intercalibration of astronomical and radioisotopic time. Geology 1994, 22:783-786.
55. Renne P.R., Zichao Z., Richards M.A., Black M.T., Basu A.R. Synchrony and causal relations between Permian-Triassic boundary crises and siberian flood volcanism. Science 1995, 269:1413.
56. 39Ar Dating into the historical realm: calibration against pliny the younger. Science 1997, 277:1279-1280.
57. 39Ar dating. Chem. Geol. (Isotope Geoscience Section) 1998, 145:117-152.
58. 39Ar dating of Late Permian evaporites, southeastern New Mexico, USA. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 2001, 193:539-547.
59. 39Ar age of the Bishop Tuff from multiple sites and sediment rate calibration for the Matuyama-Brunhes boundary. J. Geophys. Res. 2000, 105:21,431-21,443.
60. Schmitz M.D., Bowring S.A. U-Pb zircon and titanite systematics of the Fish Canyon Tuff: an assessment of high-precision U-Pb geochronology and its application to young volcanic rocks. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 2001, 65:2571-2578.
61. Schoene B., Crowley J.L., Condon D.J., Schmitz M.D., Bowring S.A. Reassessing the uranium decay constants for geochronology using ID-TIMS U/Pb data. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 2006, 70:426-445.
62. 235U. Appl. Radiat. Isot. 2004, 60:263-273.
63. Simon J.I., Reid M.R. The pace of rhyolite differentiation and storage in an "archetypical" silicic magma system, Long Valley, California. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 2005, 235:123-140.
64. Simon J.I., Renne P.R., Mundil R. Implications of pre-eruptive magmatic histories of zircons for U-Pb geochronology of silicic extrusions. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 2008, 266:182-194.
65. 39Ar, U-Pb and astronomical ages from the Green River Formation. Geology 2010, 38:527-530.
66. 39Ar dating standards. Chem. Geol. 2003, 198:189-211.
67. Steiger R.H., Jäger E. Subcommission on geochronology: convention on the use of decay constants in geo- and cosmochronology. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 1977, 6:359-362.
68. Steven T.A., Mehnert H.H., Obradovich J.D. Age of volcanic activity in the San Juan Mountains, Colorado. U.S. Geol. Surv. Prof. Pap. 1967, 575D:D47-D55.
69. 39Ar Dating and magnetostratigraphic correlation of the terrestrial cretaceous-paleogene boundary and puercan mammal age, Hell Creek - Tullock Formations, Eastern Montana. Can. J. Earth Sci. 1993, 30:1981-1996.
70. Swisher C.C., Wang Y.Q., Wang X.L., Xu X., Wang Y. Cretaceous age for the feathered dinosaurs of Liaoning, China. Nature 1999, 400:58-61.
71. 39Ar ages in the Phanerozoic. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 2000, 64:4017-4030.
72. 40K as determined from the radiogenic argon content of potassium minerals. Phys. Rev. 1956, 103:987-989.