THREE NATURAL ZIRCON STANDARDS FOR U‐TH‐PB, LU‐HF, TRACE ELEMENT AND REE ANALYSES

Abstract

We report here the results of a study to develop natural zircon geochemical standards for calibrating the U‐(Th)‐Pb geochronometer and Hf isotopic analyses. Additional data were also collected for the major, minor and trace element contents of the three selected sample sets. A total of five large zircon grains (masses between 0.5 and 238 g) were selected for this study, representing three different suites of zircons with ages of 1065 Ma, 2.5 Ma and 0.9 Ma. Geochemical laboratories can obtain these materials by contacting Geostandards Newsletter.

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Affiliated Institutions

• Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique FR
• Geological Survey of Canada CA
• Centre de Recherches Pétrographiques et Géochimiques FR
• Royal Ontario Museum CA
• Physical Research Laboratory IN
• Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation AU
• Technical University of Munich DE
• ETH Zurich CH

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