[S-GC48] Volatiles in the Earth - from Surface to Deep Mantle

[SGC48-P07] SIMS sensitivity factors of ²H and ¹⁶O²H relative to ¹⁸O in spinel-structured oxides

*Georg F Zellmer¹, Naoya Sakamoto², Minami Kuroda³, Isao Sakaguchi⁴, Hisayoshi Yurimoto^2,5 (1.Massey University, 2.Hokkaido University, 3.AIST, 4.National Institute of Material Sciences, 5.Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency)

Keywords:spinel-structured oxides, relative sensitivity factors, secondary ion mass spectrometry, hydrogen analysis, nominally anhydrous minerals

Spinel-structured oxides ("spinels") are a group of nominally anhydrous minerals characterized by a wide range of solid solution. To allow the analysis of hydrogen in spinels by ion microprobe, Relative Sensitivity Factors (RSFs), which are typically matrix-dependent, need to be determined. For this work, we have selected five natural spinels from the Mg-Al-Fe-Ti-Cr-Mn-Zn compositional space. We present an approach to estimate spinel density on basis of bulk chemical composition determined by electron microprobe. Densities in our samples range from 3.7 to 5.1 g cm^-3. Samples were implanted with a fixed dose of deuterium (1 x 10¹⁵ atoms cm^-2) using an ion energy of 40 keV. Subsequently, we performed depth profiling using a Cs⁺ primary beam on the Cameca ims-1270 ion microprobe at Hokkaido University, monitoring secondary ion counts of ²H and ¹⁸O, and at high mass-resolution ¹⁶O²H, ¹⁷O¹H, and ¹⁸O, until the implanted ion counts dropped below background levels. From the reduced data, we calculated the RSFs for secondary ions of atomic ²H and molecular ¹⁶O²H relative to ¹⁸O as matrix element. RSFs for ²H are similar for all spinels at 1.11 ±0.32 (2σ) x 10²² atoms cm^-3, indicating a small matrix effect for ²H despite the large compositional range of spinels studied. In contrast, RSFs for ¹⁶O²H relative to ¹⁸O decrease with spinel density from 2.65 ±0.36 (2σ) x 10²¹ atoms cm^-3 at 3.7 g cm^-3 to 3.41 ±0.73 (2σ) x 10²⁰ atoms cm^-3 at > 4.5 g cm^-3, indicating a strong matrix effect on secondary dimer production during processes of ion sputtering and secondary ionization. Our data imply that the analysis of water in natural spinels may be undertaken through measurement of H or OH, but that spinel densities must be well-determined in the case of OH measurement. Mineral density effects on RSF values will have to be evaluated prior to analysis of water in other nominally anhydrous solid solution minerals.