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New olivine reference material for in situ microanalysis

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posted on 2023-05-20, 22:01 authored by Batanova, VG, Thompson, JM, Leonid Danyushevsky, Portnyagin, MV, Garbe-Schonberg, D, Hauri, E, Kimura, JI, Chang, Q, Senda, R, Karsten GoemannKarsten Goemann, Chauvel, C, Campillo, S, Ionov, DA, Sobolev, AV
A new olivine reference material – MongOL Sh11‐2 – for in situ analysis has been prepared from the central portion of a large (20 × 20 × 10 cm) mantle peridotite xenolith from a ∼0.5 My old basaltic breccia at Shavaryn‐Tsaram, Tariat region, central Mongolia. The xenolith is a fertile mantle lherzolite with minimal signs of alteration. Approximately 10 g of 0.5–2 mm gem quality olivine fragments were separated under binocular microscope and analysed by EPMA, LA‐ICP‐MS, SIMS and bulk analytical methods (ID‐ICP‐MS for Mg and Fe, XRF, ICP‐MS) for major, minor and trace elements at six institutions world‐wide. The results show that the olivine fragments are sufficiently homogeneous with respect to major (Mg, Fe, Si), minor and trace elements. Significant inhomogeneity was revealed only for phosphorus (homogeneity index of 12.4), whereas Li, Na, Al, Sc, Ti and Cr show minor inhomogeneity (homogeneity index of 1–2). The presence of some mineral and fluid‐melt micro‐inclusions may be responsible for the inconsistency in mass fractions obtained by in situ and bulk analytical methods for Al, Cu, Sr, Zr, Ga, Dy and Ho. Here we report reference and information values for twenty‐seven major, minor and trace elements.

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Publication title

Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research

Volume

43

Pagination

453-473

ISSN

1639-4488

Department/School

School of Natural Sciences

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Place of publication

United States

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© 2019 The Authors. Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research © 2019 International Association of Geoanalysts This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License, (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Expanding knowledge in the chemical sciences; Expanding knowledge in the earth sciences