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    Advancements in cosmogenic <sup>38</sup>Ar exposure dating of terrestrial rocks

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    Authors
    Oostingh, K.
    Jourdan, Fred
    Danisik, Martin
    Evans, Noreen
    Date
    2017
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Oostingh, K. and Jourdan, F. and Danisik, M. and Evans, N. 2017. Advancements in cosmogenic <sup>38</sup>Ar exposure dating of terrestrial rocks. Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta. 217: pp. 193-218.
    Source Title
    Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta
    DOI
    10.1016/j.gca.2017.07.043
    ISSN
    0016-7037
    School
    Department of Applied Geology
    Funding and Sponsorship
    http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP160102427
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/58002
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    © 2017 Elsevier Ltd Cosmogenic exposure dating of Ca-rich minerals using 38 Ar on terrestrial rocks could be a valuable new dating tool to determine timescales of geological surface processes on Earth. Here, we show that advancement in analytical precision, using the new generation multi-collector ARGUSVI mass spectrometer on irradiated pyroxene and apatite samples, allows determination of cosmogenic 38 Ar abundances above background values, as well as discrimination of 38 Ar/ 36 Ar ratios (1s absolute precision of ±0.3%) from the non-cosmogenic background value. Four statistically significant cosmochron ( 38 Ar/ 36 Ar vs 37 Ar/ 36 Ar) diagrams could be constructed for southeast Australian pyroxene samples from the Mt Elephant scoria cone for which a combined apparent exposure age of 313 ± 179 ka (2s) was obtained when using a 38 Ar production rate (Ca) of 250 atoms /g Ca/ yr. This exposure age overlaps within error with the known 40 Ar/ 39 Ar eruption age of 184 ± 15 ka (2s). Although apatite shows much larger 38 Ar abundances than pyroxene, our modelling and analyses of unirradiated apatite suggest that apatite suffers from both natural and reactor-derived chlorogenic as well as natural nucleogenic contributions of 38 Ar. Hence, we suggest that cosmogenic 38 Ar exposure dating on irradiated Ca-rich (and eventually K-rich), but Cl-free, terrestrial minerals is a potential valuable and accessible tool to determine geological surface processes on timescales of a few Ma. Calculations show that with the new generation multi-collector mass spectrometers an analytical uncertainty better than 5% (2s) can be achieved on samples with expected exposure ages of > 4 Ma.

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