| Autor: |
Davis, Donald Wayne, Denyszyn, Steven, Fougerouse, Denis |
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Geochronology; 6/28/2023, p1-26, 26p |
| Abstrakt: |
Atom probe tomography of 238U and 206Pb has been applied to baddeleyite crystals from the Hart Dolerite (1791 ± 1 Ma) and the Great Dyke of Mauritania (2732 ± 2 Ma) in an effort to constrain the average nuclear recoil distance of U-series daughter nuclei and thereby correct U-Pb ages determined on small baddeleyite crystals for alpha-recoil loss of Pb. Both crystals were thought to expose natural crystal surfaces providing a boundary where maximum recoil loss could be observed, but both surfaces showed no adjacent variations in Pb concentrations. However, the Great Dyke sample shows U zoning and the associated 206Pb zoning is affected by alpha recoil. A forward modelling approach was used where 206Pb redistribution functions were determined for a range of possible alpha recoil distances and synthetic 206Pb/238U profiles were determined from the convolution of the observed U profile with the redistribution functions. These can be compared to the observed 206Pb/238U profile. A complication is that the 400 nm range of sampling is lower than the range of possible alpha recoil redistribution effects. In order to get a realistic match to the observed 206Pb/238U profile, it was necessary to extrapolate the observed zoning as an oscillatory pattern. This gives a best estimate for the average alpha recoil distance of about 40 nm. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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Complementary Index |
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