Improved <i>in</i>-<i>situ</i> Determination of Sr Isotope Ratio in Silicate Samples Using LA-MC-ICP-MS and Its Wider Application for Fused Rock Powder

Lüyun Zhu; Ganglan Zhang; Yongsheng Liu; Jie Lin; Xirun Tong; Shao-Yong Jiang

doi:10.1007/s12583-019-1214-0

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Lüyun Zhu, Ganglan Zhang, Yongsheng Liu, Jie Lin, Xirun Tong, Shao-Yong Jiang. Improved in-situ Determination of Sr Isotope Ratio in Silicate Samples Using LA-MC-ICP-MS and Its Wider Application for Fused Rock Powder. Journal of Earth Science, 2020, 31(2): 262-270. doi: 10.1007/s12583-019-1214-0

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Lüyun Zhu, Ganglan Zhang, Yongsheng Liu, Jie Lin, Xirun Tong, Shao-Yong Jiang. Improved in-situ Determination of Sr Isotope Ratio in Silicate Samples Using LA-MC-ICP-MS and Its Wider Application for Fused Rock Powder. Journal of Earth Science, 2020, 31(2): 262-270. doi: 10.1007/s12583-019-1214-0

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Improved in-situ Determination of Sr Isotope Ratio in Silicate Samples Using LA-MC-ICP-MS and Its Wider Application for Fused Rock Powder

doi: 10.1007/s12583-019-1214-0

Lüyun Zhu^{1,2
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Ganglan Zhang^1,3,
Yongsheng Liu^1,3,
Jie Lin^1,3,
Xirun Tong⁴,
Shao-Yong Jiang^1,2

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State Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China
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Collaborative Innovation Center for Exploration of Strategic Mineral Resources, Faculty of Earth Resource, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China
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School of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China
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Wuhan Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources, Wuhan 430205, China

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Corresponding author: Lüyun Zhu
Received Date: 23 Sep 2018
Accepted Date: 17 Oct 2018
Publish Date: 01 Apr 2020

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The in-situ Sr isotope determination of solid samples has the advantages of high spatial resolution and convenient and rapid sample preparation. However, due to the lack of column chemistry separation of matrix elements from Sr, the interference correction (especially the isobaric interference from ⁸⁷Rb on ⁸⁷Sr) becomes a big issue for high precise in-situ Sr isotope analytical results. In this study, we evaluated the influence of isobaric interference systematically and adopted an improved strategy for isobaric interference correction of Rb. Specifically, as an external standard for data calibration, an in-house silicate standard (Rb-std) was fused from pure oxide powders. The new standard (Rb-std) shows very low contents of Sr (< 1 ppm), Yb (< 0.09 ppm) and Er (< 0.05 ppm), which directly avoid the trouble of interference of doubly charged ions and isobar, when we determinate the mass fractionation factors of Rb (β_Rb). Our improved method can provide more accurate data than previous researches, in which the mass fractionation were calculated from an external reference material StHs6/80-G with high Rb (30.07 ppm), Sr (482 ppm), Yb (1.13 ppm) and Er (1.18 ppm). Then, these β_Rb from Rb-std were applied by linear interpolation to the unknown samples for correction of ⁸⁷Rb on ⁸⁷Sr. The analytical results of serial international reference materials (BIR-1G, BCR-2G, BHVO-2G, T1-G and ATHO-G) demonstrate that our improved method can raise the upper limit of Rb/Sr for in-situ Sr isotope determination and reduce the relative standard deviation of results. This improvement of the upper limit of Rb/Sr (< 0.33) will expand not only range of microanalysis for silicate minerals, but also bulk Sr isotope determination of volcanic rock combining with rapid fusion technique.
- LA-MC-ICP-MS,
- Sr isotope ratio,
- in-situ analysis,
- interference of Rb,
- external standard,
- geochemistry

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