In Situ U-Pb Zircon Dating Using Laser Ablation-Multi Ion Counting-ICP-MS (LA-MIC-ICP-MS)

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1) Thermo Fisher Scientific, Bremen, Germany, 2) BRGM, Orléans, France, 3) University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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In Situ U-Pb Zircon Dating Using Laser Ablation-Multi Ion Counting-ICP-MS (LA-MIC-ICP-MS)
Claudia Bouman (1), Johannes Schwieters (1), Alain Cocherie (2), Michèle Robert (2) and Michael Wieser (3)
This note describes in-situ U-Pb analysis in zircons by Laser Ablation using Multi-Ion-Counting on the Neptune MC-ICPMS. Four zircons with different ages were used to evaluate the potential of this technique, including 91500, PMA7, CN92 (UQ-Z1) and 5FRATI.

• MC-ICPMS
• Neptune
• Laser Ablation
• U-Pb
• Multi-Ion Counting