DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2021.103745
论文题名: Analyses from a validated global U–Pb detrital zircon database: Enhanced methods for filtering discordant U–Pb zircon analyses and optimizing crystallization age estimates
作者: Puetz S.J. ; Spencer C.J. ; Ganade C.E.
刊名: Earth Science Reviews
ISSN: 00128252
出版年: 2021
卷: 220 语种: 英语
中文关键词: Concordia
; Data validation
; Discordance
; Global detrital zircon database
; Single grain concordia age
; U-Pb isotope analysis
英文摘要: Determining the “best age” of individual grains from U–Pb detrital zircon analyses remains problematic, with the current system generally relying on an arbitrary cut-off age for determining when to switch from 206Pb/238U ages to 207Pb/206Pb ages. Recently, some found that iteratively calculated IsoplotR single grain concordia ages provide estimates with increased precision and have turned to using these estimates as the preferred age. Here, we compile a new 604,553 record global detrital zircon database containing U–Pb ratios, ages, uncertainties, laboratory settings, among other variables. The new database provides a means for investigating four best age models from the standpoint of accuracy. The models are (1) 1700 Ma cut-off for best age, (2) 1000 Ma cut-off for best age, (3) iteratively calculated IsoplotR single grain concordia ages, and (4) a new non-iterative model developed by comparing U–Pb ages of zircon standards dated by both ID-TIMS and LA-ICP-MS spectrometry. We then classify all analyses by their degree of concordance and calculate unweighted age distributions. The age distributions are nearly identical for all models when highly concordant analyses are used. However, as discordance increases, the models with arbitrary cut-offs produce age distributions with artificial depressions at the cut-off age. After segregating database records into five concordance classes, cross-correlation analyses show the five non-iterative, class-based, age distributions are aligned and correlated better than those from the other age models. Rather than abruptly transitioning from 207Pb/206Pb ages to 206Pb/238U ages at a specific cut-off age, the results support a cumulative distribution model that defines a gradual transition from the opposing geochronometers over an interval of ~1200-myr, primarily encompassing the span from 1600 Ma to 400 Ma. Additionally, a supplementary template is developed to provide geochronologists with a means to validate U–Pb related data, calculate the new concordance classifications, and calculate non-iterative ages. © 2021 Elsevier B.V. Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/166487
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作者单位: Progressive Science Institute, 475 Atkinson Dr, Suite 704, Honolulu, HI 96814, United States; Queen's University, Department of Geological Sciences and Geological Engineering, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada; Geological Survey of Brazil, Avenue Pasteur 404, Urca, Rio de Janeiro, RJ 22290-255, Brazil
Recommended Citation:
Puetz S.J.,Spencer C.J.,Ganade C.E.. Analyses from a validated global U–Pb detrital zircon database: Enhanced methods for filtering discordant U–Pb zircon analyses and optimizing crystallization age estimates[J]. Earth Science Reviews,2021-01-01,220