Uranium and lead gain of detrital zircon studied by isotopic analyses and fission-track mapping |
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| Authors: | B Grauert MG Seitz G Soptrajanova |
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| Institution: | Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, D.C. USA;Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, D.C. USA;Institut für Kristallographie und Petrographie, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zürich Switzerland |
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| Abstract: | Besides Pb and U loss and mixing of crystals of different age, U gain is considered a possible cause of discordant U-Pb ages of zircons. However, whether U gain without new zircon growth occurs in nature had not been proven, so far. In order to test this possibility, two detrital zircon populations were studied for which the absence of later zircon overgrowth after deposition could be demonstrated. The samples were separated from a metaquartzite near a large pegmatite body and from metaquartzite inclusions found in the pegmatite (Martell Valley, Italian Alps). The distribution of neutron-induced fission tracks reveals distinct accumulation of U in the rims of more than 90% of the zircon grains of the inclusions (total U in the crystals: 540–850 ppm), whereas in the country rock only some of the grains show similar but weaker patterns (total U: 155–320 ppm). From the isotopic data and from additional U-Pb and Rb-Sr analyses of minerals and whole-rock samples of the pegmatite, the marginal accumulation and the higher concentration of U in the zircon grains of the inclusions are interpreted as the result of episodic U gain during the intrusion of the pegmatite and/or during a later metamorphism. From the concentration levels of common Pb, an addition of Pb - and possibly other elements - to the zircon grains is inferred. |
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