Consistency between fission-track and U-Pb ages of zircon and its implications

Hideki IWANO; Tohru DANHARA

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[M-TT42_2AM1] Frontiers in Geochemistry : Innovative approaches for Earth and Planetary Sciences

Fri. May 2, 2014 9:00 AM - 10:50 AM 314 (3F)

Convener:*Yusuke Yokoyama(Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, University of Tokyo), Hiroyuki Kagi(Geochemical Laboratory, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo), Shogo Tachibana(Department of Natural History Scieces, Hokkaido University), Takafumi Hirata(Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University), Urumu Tsunogai(Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University), Katsuhiko Suzuki(Institute for Research on Earth Evolution, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology), Gen Shimoda(Geological Survey of Japan, AIST), Hirochika Sumino(Geochemical Research Center, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo), Hajime Obata(Marine inorganic chemistry division, Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, University of Tokyo), Yoshio Takahashi(Department of Earth and Planetary Systems Science, Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University), Tetsuya Yokoyama(Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology), Chair:Yusuke Yokoyama(Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, University of Tokyo), Shogo Tachibana(Department of Natural History Scieces, Hokkaido University), Hiroyuki Kagi(Geochemical Laboratory, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo)

9:30 AM - 9:45 AM

[MTT42-03] Consistency between fission-track and U-Pb ages of zircon and its implications

*Hideki IWANO¹, Tohru DANHARA¹ (1.Kyoto Fission-Track Co.)

Keywords:zircon, fission-track age, U-Pb age, calibration

Following the recommendation by the Fission Track Working Group of the IUGS Subcommission on Geochronology (Hurford, 1990), the fission-track method was transformed into a simplified and user-friendly dating tool. Standardization based on the common use of international age standards is what is called the zeta calibration. However, the adoption of the standardization scheme in which fission-track ages are determined against reference ages (K-Ar, Ar/Ar, Rb-Sr), and not based on physical parameters directly associated with the fission process, meant that the fission-track method lost its status as an independent geochronometer. Over the last two decades, we have investigated the problems of the absolute calibration approach, and we have finally demonstrated that it works well for zircon when using the external detector method (Danhara and Iwano, 2013). One of our conclusions is that the fission-track age for the Fish Canyon Tuff is 28.4+/-0.2 Ma. This is concordant with the recent zircon U-Pb ages (Schmitz and Bowring, 2001; Bachmann et al., 2007) and slightly older than the sanidine Ar/Ar age of 27.8+/-0.2 Ma, which is the reference age for the zeta calibration. We will discuss the consistency between fission-track and U-Pb ages of zircon from volcanic samples and give some comments on fission-track age standardization.Bachmann et al. (2007) Chemical Geology 236, 134-166.Danhara and Iwano (2013) Island Arc, 22, 264-279.Hurford (1990) Chemical Geology, 80, 171-178.Schmitz and Bowring (2001) Goechimica et Cosmochimica Acta 65, 2571-2587.