This study combines laser step-heating of small discs of tschermakitic hornblende, drilled from thin section under a petrographic microscope with furnace step-heating of hornblende separates. Comparison of laser stepheating and furnace step-heating data of the same samples shows that apparent loss age spectra for hornblende are due to small amounts of included much younger biotite that degasses earlier than the host amphibole during dating in the laboratory. This means that separates still contained biotite despite rigorous hand-picking. In contrast, hornblende discs, from which biotite could be avoided by targeted drilling and completely biotite free samples, did not show progressively rising age and Ca/K ratio spectra, but flat ones. The Neoarchaean ages for the hornblende and the Paleoproterozoic ages for biotite agree with the thermo-tectonic evolution of the Lapland-Kola Orogen in arctic European Russia.
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DeJong Wijbrans_Micro Sampling, Laser Probe & Apparent Loss Age Spectra Archean Hornblende (Lapland-Kola belt,Russia)_Terra Nova 2006
This study combines laser step-heating of small discs of tschermakitic hornblende, drilled from thin section under a petrographic microscope with furnace step-heating of hornblende separates…