Improved laser ablation U-Pb zircon geochronology through robust downhole fractionation correction

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Paton, Chad ^a,b   Woodhead, Jon D ^a   Hellstrom, John C ^a   Hergt, Janet M ^a   Greig, Alan ^a   Maas, Roland ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Fractionation; Geochronology; Laser ablation; Software; U Pb; zircon

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA REDUCTION; FRACTIONATION; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; LASER ABLATION; LASER APPLICATIONS; ZIRCON;

ANALYTICAL CONDITIONS; COMMON FEATURES; COMPLEX MODEL; CUBIC SPLINE; DATA QUALITY; DOWNHOLES; ELEMENTAL FRACTIONATION; EXPONENTIAL CURVES; INTERLABORATORY COMPARISON; LASER-ABLATION-ICP-MS; MATRIX; RAPID REDUCTION; RASTERING; SHORT-INTERVAL; SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY; TARGET SIZE; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; U-PB AGES; U-PB ZIRCON;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

FRACTIONATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LASER METHOD; SOFTWARE; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

EID: 79851512080     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GC002618     Document Type: Article

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