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TEXTURAL AND MICROANALYSIS OF IGNEOUS ROCKS: TOOLS ...

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trivalent REE diffuse slower that the more abundant divalent cations (i.e., Sr and<br />

Ba). This indicates that investigation of REE diffusion in plagioclase may provide<br />

a more extensive time record of magmatic residence.<br />

Although plagioclase trace element studies have proven to be useful, perhaps<br />

the most robust future petrologic insights will come from intramineral isotope<br />

studies beyond Sr (including Pb, Sm-Nd for example). Mineral scale isotope<br />

studies are limited by the amount of the element of interest in the mineral. For<br />

example, the greater abundance of Sr in plagioclase versus clinopyroxene makes<br />

Sr isotope microanalysis of plagioclase much less difficult. Improvement of ion-<br />

ization efficiency in TIMS analysis can help alleviate some of this problem (e.g.,<br />

discussion in [40]), as can instrumentation advances that improve signal intensity<br />

at a given concentration (e.g., guard electrodes). One of the difficulties faced<br />

with a microdrill-TIMS approach is the high incidence of fracturing, flaking, and<br />

inadvertent sampling of undesired zones. Perhaps one of the surest ways to im-<br />

prove the controlled removal of mineral material for isotopic analysis is through<br />

the use of laser ablation [40]. Laser ablation based isotopic studies generally re-<br />

quires interfacing the LA system with a multicollector ICP-MS. The use of a Ar<br />

based plasma introduces a host of issues and interferences not encountered with<br />

TIMS. For example Ar used in ICP-MS commonly contains trace Kr, of which 86 Kr<br />

(17.37% abundance) represents a particularly problematic polybaric interference.<br />

At present a variety of corrections are necessary to obtain close to meanigful<br />

87 Sr/ 86 Srm by MC-LA-ICP-MS. If mineral standards were available for isotopic<br />

analyses, quality control of MC-LA-ICP-MS work would be more straightforward.<br />

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