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The Canadian Mineralogist
Article . 2003 . Peer-reviewed
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LASER-ABLATION U Th Pb IN SITU DATING OF ZIRCON AND ALLANITE: AN EXAMPLE FROM THE OCTOBER HARBOUR GRANITE, CENTRAL COASTAL LABRADOR, CANADA

Authors: R. A. Cox; D. H.C. Wilton; J. Kosler;

LASER-ABLATION U Th Pb IN SITU DATING OF ZIRCON AND ALLANITE: AN EXAMPLE FROM THE OCTOBER HARBOUR GRANITE, CENTRAL COASTAL LABRADOR, CANADA

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Nous avons acquis des donnees geochronologiques (systeme U-Th-Pb) par ablation au laser avec un plasma a couplage inductif et spectrometrie de masse (LAM-ICP-MS) afin de preciser in situ l'âge de l'allanite et du zircon dans une seule lame mince polie du granite de October Harbour, au Labrador. C'est la premiere fois que l'allanite est ainsi etudiee pour datation Th-Pb par methode LAM-ICP-MS, avec verification des resultats par datation du zircon dans le meme echantillon. Des cristaux atteignant a peine 20 X 20 μm ont meme pu etre analyses dans une lame mince polie d'une epaisseur de 100 μm. Au prealable, les cristaux de zircon ont ete examines avec des images d'electrons retrodiffuses afin d'evaluer la presence de coeurs herites, de surcroissances, et de croissance oscillatoire. Nous avons effectue 45 analyses LAM-ICP-MS de 35 cristaux de zircon. Selon les donnees U-Th-Pb obtenues sur zircon, l'âge du granite serait 1657 ′ 10 Ma (MSWD = 0.77, moyenne ponderee des âges 2 0 7 Pb/ 2 0 6 Pb telle que determinee avec 25 points concordants). Les donnees indiquent la presence de zircon herite ayant un âge de 1800-1850 Ma, et des signes de pertes repetees de plomb dans plusieurs grains. L'allanite se presente en gros cristaux idiomorphes. Elle fait preuve de teneurs elevees en U et en Th. Vingt-six analyses de deux cristaux d'allanite ont donne seize points concordants, provenant surtout du noyau a faible teneur en Th d'un seul cristal, et une moyenne ponderee de l'âge 2 0 8 Pb/ 2 3 2 Th de 1635 ′ 17 Ma (MSWD = 2.1). Quoique les signes d'une perte complexe de plomb sont aussi presents dans certaines portions de l'allanite, il n'y a aucun signe d'un coeur herite. L'âge du granite de October Harbour serait d'environ 1640-1660 Ma, ce qui est passablement plus jeune que ce que l'on avait propose anterieurement suite a une analyse conventionelle U-Pb de plusieurs grains de zircon pris de la suite intrusive de Strawberry, soupconnee d'etre liee genetiquement, ce qui avait donne un âge de 1719 ′ 3 Ma. La suite de Strawberry pourrait donc etre plus complexe qu'une simple suite de roches mise en place il y a environ 1720 Ma, et contenir des roches d'âges tres differents.

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