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Reconsidering initial Pb in titanite in the context of in situ dating

  • Chloë E. Bonamici EMAIL logo and Tyler B. Blum
From the journal American Mineralogist

Abstract

In situ U-Pb dating of titanite, which can preserve trace-element records of various petrologic processes but also incorporates significant initial Pb, has proliferated in recent years. The widespread use of titanite data to construct tectonic P-T-t paths warrants careful assessment of the available dating techniques, as well as attention to the assumptions that underpin the U-Pb data analysis. This contribution provides the first direct comparison of the two major analytical methods [SHRIMP (SIMS) and LA-ICP-MS] for in situ U-Pb titanite dating. A set of well-characterized titanite grains from Harrisville, New York, in the Adirondack Mountains were analyzed for U-Th-Pb isotopes along the same cross-grain traverses by Sensitive High Resolution Ion Microprobe (SHRIMP) and LA-ICP-MS. Both LA-ICP-MS and SHRIMP data sets define approximately linear arrays on the Tera-Wasserburg Concordia (semi-total Pb/U) diagram and would commonly be interpreted as representing a single date population with minor scatter. However, previous studies have suggested that Adirondack titanite actually records two regionally well-defined thermal events, ~50–100 m.y. apart. When titanite data arrays are treated in detail, attempts to determine concordia-intercept ages by robust three-dimensional linear regression produce large uncertainties and/or poor fit statistics that suggest that the data are not, in fact, isochronous. Grain-by-grain analysis of U-Pb titanite data shows that different subsets of titanite (determined by additional geochemical and microstructural data) show different patterns of U-Pb data. By comparing predictions for Pb-ingrowth evolution paths in Tera-Wasserburg diagrams with observed data, it is possible to recognize both a change in initial Pb composition and Pb loss in the Adirondack titanite U-Pb data set. This study provides an example of how greater geochronologic detail can be extracted from large in situ U-Pb titanite data sets. Even when precise dates are not recovered, geological processes and events that cause data scatter can be recognized through analysis of U-Pb data patterns using the Tera-Wasserburg diagram.

Acknowledgments and Funding

We thank C. Mark Fanning of the Research School of Earth Sciences at the Australian National University for enabling SHRIMP U-Th-Pb data collection. We thank N. Geisler and M. Pecha of the Arizona Laserchron Center for supporting LA-ICP-MS U-Th-Pb analysis and providing data analysis spreadsheets. B. Hess expertly prepared samples. We also thank two anonymous reviewers for useful comments and suggestions for the improvement of this manuscript. This work was supported through the National Science Foundation [grant number EAR-0838058] (awarded to John Valley) and [grant number EAR-1806924] (awarded to Tyler Blum).

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Received: 2019-08-21
Accepted: 2020-04-02
Published Online: 2020-10-28
Published in Print: 2020-11-25

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